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A carved bamboo brushpot, bitong
Qianlong

Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
4 December 2008, 12:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

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A carved bamboo brushpot, bitong

Qianlong
The straight sides incised with a design of a leafy Chinese cabbage plant, leaning to one side surrounded by weeds against a plain ground, dated bingwu (1786), and signed Yunqiao Shanren, with one seal reading Shanggu, the body raised on three shallow tab feet, fitted box.
12.5cm (4 7/8in) high. (2).

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The inscription on the brushpot can be translated as "bingwu year, first part of the qinghe month (qinghe is the literary name for the fourth month on the lunar calendar), made by Yunqiao Shanren".

Yunqiao Shanren is one of the names used by Deng Wei, a bamboo carver active during the reign of Qianlong. There are many signed brushpots carved with Chinese cabbage in fields after spring rains. One such brushpot attributed to Deng Wei is illustrated by Simon Kwan in Ming and Qing Bamboo, Hong Kong, 2000, no.89, pp. 324-325, where it is noted that Chinese cabbage was a popular motif for bamboo carving during the mid-Qing period, and was based on a Song dynasty painting by Xu Di. Also illustrated, ibid., is a signed brushpot with similar subject matter in the collection of Ye Gongchuo. Both examples are stylistically similar to the present lot.

清乾隆 竹雕白菜筆筒 《雲樵山人》款

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