A 'bamboo' inkstone
Qing Dynasty
The scholar's object carved as a bamboo section, the front with bamboo leaves issuing from the plant opposite a cicada, with red pigment mostly to the reverse.
23.7cm (9⅜in) long
The scholar's object carved as a bamboo section, the front with bamboo leaves issuing from the plant opposite a cicada, with red pigment mostly to the reverse.
23.7cm (9⅜in) long
Estimate:
£2,000 - 3,000
HK$ 24,000 - 36,000
US$ 3,100 - 4,700
HK$ 24,000 - 36,000
US$ 3,100 - 4,700
Footnotes
- Provenance: Professor Max Esterer, Germany.
Professor Esterer spent 17 years in China between the First World War and the Second Sino-Japanese War. During his stay in China he is said to have befriended Chiang Kai Shek, who on the former's return to Germany sent him tea to Bavaria for the next ten years.
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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