An unusual large carved rootwood brushpot signed Fang Gulin 17th Century

naturalistically carved as a rocky mountain cliff-face scattered with pine and other trees, with two figures standing on a ledge at the bottom of a long flight of steps leading up to a pavilion partly hidden behind a gnarled boulder, the carving taking advantage of the gnarling and knotting of the root, signed Fang Gulin, the wood of a silvery brown tone, the base fitted with a wood mount