Brush Pot
ca. 1700-1750 (made)
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Bamboo brushpot, cylindrical on a raised footrim with three slightly raised feet, carved with two scholars indoors, two military figures beneath pine trees with rocks.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Bamboo, carved |
| Brief description | Brush pot, carved bamboo, China, Qing dynasty, ca. 1700-1750 |
| Physical description | Bamboo brushpot, cylindrical on a raised footrim with three slightly raised feet, carved with two scholars indoors, two military figures beneath pine trees with rocks. |
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| Object history | From Register: The subject shown is almost certainly San gu mao lu 'Three visits to the thatched cottage', in which Liu Bei (d. AD 222) visits Zhuge Liang (AD 181-234) three times in an attempt to persuade him to act as his adviser. The locus of the phrase is San guo zhi. Shu zhi. Zhuge Liang zhuan, and the more popular version, giving rise to its currency not only in the theatre but also in the applied arts, is San guo yan yi, chapter 37. Craig Clunas 4.5.88 |
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| Bibliographic reference | Clunas, Craig. Chinese Carving. London: Sun Tree Publishing Ltd in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 1996. p. 48, fig. 48. |
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| Accession number | FE.31-1976 |
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| Record created | June 25, 2009 |
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