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Brushpot with decoration of figures in landscape and inscribed poem
Brushpot with decoration of figures in landscape and inscribed poem

Brushpot with decoration of figures in landscape and inscribed poem

Zhang Xihuang (Chinese, active early 17th century)
early 17th century
Medium/TechniqueBamboo, carved in the liuqing ("reserve green") technique
Dimensions13.02 cm (5 1/8 in.)
Credit LineMarshall H. Gould Fund and partial gift of Judge and Mrs. Matthew Brown in memory of their son Ronald Goodrich Brown
Accession number1977.22
On View
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ClassificationsScholar's objects
Collections
InscriptionsPoem with reference to the Huanghelou of Dongting LakeProvenanceBy 1935, Sir Percival David, 2d. Bt. (b. 1892 - d. 1964), London [see note 1]; probably by descent to his widow; December 14, 1976, anonymous ("property of a lady") sale, Sotheby's, London, lot 230, sold. 1977, sold by Bluett and Sons, Ltd., London, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 9, 1977)

NOTES:
[1] Lent to the "International Exhibition of Chinese Art" (Royal Academy, London, 1935-1936), no. 2944 and to "The Arts of the Ming Dynasty" (Detroit Institute of Arts, 1957), no. 382.