A finely carved and reticulated bamboo incense holder Early Qing Dynasty

well carved in high relief and pierced with a continuous mountain landscape scene of figures engaged in various pursuits within a deep rocky gorge containing a pavilion amid pine and other trees, a bridge over a gushing stream, with swirling clouds above, signed Fan Bin, the top and bottom fitted with buffalo horn ends, the original plugs missing

Compare a similar piece but different landscape scene offered in our rooms 29th October, 2001, lots 680 and 685.

Another reticulated cylinder is illustrated in Gerard Tsang and Hugh Moss, Arts from a Scholar's Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, cat. no. 233.