A CARVED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

of cylindrical form, the sides carved with a continuous scene of two scholars at a game of weiqi with an acolyte watching, all before a rocky mountainscape and beneath towering pine trees, in the distance two attendants busy boiling water to serve tea, bearing the signature Shang Xun

Other examples bearing the signuture Shang Xun, include a brushpot carved with a river landscape, published in Ip Yee and Laurence C.S. Tam, Chinese Bamboo Carving, Part II, Hong Kong, 1978, pp. 98 - 99.