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A pale green and russet jade 'pine-trunk' brushpot, bitong 17th/18th century image 1
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A pale green and russet jade 'pine-trunk' brushpot, bitong
17th/18th century

8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£10,000 - £15,000

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A pale green and russet jade 'pine-trunk' brushpot, bitong

17th/18th century
The mottled stone cleverly retaining the russet areas as the deeply whorled and knotted pine trunk, the green areas carved as the branches and leaves on which perch three small tree shrews.
14.5cm (5¾in) high

Footnotes

Provenance : Rare Art Inc., New York, 20 March 1978

十七/十八世紀 青玉帶皮雕松紋筆筒

來源: 於1978年3月20日購自紐約Rare Art Inc.

The form of the present brushpot takes its inspiration from bamboo brushpots which were popular in the 17th/18th centuries, see Chinese Bamboo Carving: Part I, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1978, pl.6. The present brushpot is very ingeniously carved to incorporate the inclusions into the finished design, successfully emulating the natural knotted pine. A similar knotted pine trunk brushpot, but with jade accessories, is illustrated by R.Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Simone and Alan Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no.111.

Compare another related example from the Qing Court Collection, inscribed with an Imperial poem, dated to the mid Qing Dynasty, illustrated in Classics of Forbidden City: Scholar's Paraphernalia, Beijing, 2009, pl.38.

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