A large finely carved bamboo brushpot 17th Century

following the natural shape of the bamboo, the thick sides with fitted hardwood rim and base on three short feet, the exterior well carved in high relief with a continuous mountain landscape scene depicting two scholars playing weiqi, with two ladies observing, under pine trees in a rocky mountain valley, the peaks obscured by clouds above, beyond a gushing waterfall in the distance a man approaches on horseback from behind a cliff, the wood of auburn-brown tone