Asian Art I - 22nd May 2013
Lot 251
A fine Chinese bamboo bitong 18th century
Estimate £10,000 - £15,000 | Hammer £13000
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Description
A fine Chinese bamboo bitong 18th century, well carved in high relief with a narrative scene of figures before a bamboo grove, to one side pine, maple and other trees amongst rocks, the reverse with a small bridge over a mountain stream, with hardwood mounts to the foot and rim, 15.2cm high.
Provenance: from a titled English family in the New Forest.
Cf. The Palace Museum, Beijing, Bamboo, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn, p.35 for a similarly mounted bitong from the early Qing Dynasty.
十八世紀 竹雕攜琴訪友筆筒
來源：英國紐弗羅斯特地區貴族收藏