AN INSCRIBED HARDWOOD AND BAMBOO INCENSE HOLDER QING DYNASTY

of long rectangular form, the short sides carved with a raised central ridge, each of the main sides inset  with a bamboo panel, one inscribed to the top with four characters yin zhong ba xian (Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup), followed by the poem by Du Fu of the same name, the other side incised with a scene of a scholar on a path towards a mansion with a riverscene in the background, below a poem by Chen Shiren, followed by the cyclical date bingchen, winter, twelfth month, both sides signed Zhen Xian