A CARVED BAMBOO-ROOT 'GRAPES AND LEAF' BRUSHWASHER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

skilfully carved in the form of a furled grape leaf stemming from a gnarled branch, the branch further issuing a cluster of plump globular grapes on the underside of the vessel, the interior and exterior of the vessel naturalistically picked out with fine veins of the leaf, the stippled surface of a slightly variegated brown patina

E & J Frankel Ltd., New York.

There are minute chips to the extremities, otherwise good condition.
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Another bamboo brushwasher in the form of a leaf and grapes, slightly larger than the current example and with a cicada to the interior, from the Qing Court collection, preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2002, pl. 41.