Title
Bamboo brush holder
Year/Period
17th century
Region
Jiading, Jiangsu province, China
Object Type
Material
Technique
Dimension
Object size: 15 x 8.3 cm
Accession No.
1999-02652
Collection of
A classic example of Wu Zhifan's shallow relief carving (bodi yangwen) technique, this exquisite brushpot was an objet d'art to be collected and admired by the scholar's class. Wu Zhifan was the successor of the Jiading school of carving founded by the Zhu Family. Wu specialised in three-dimensional carving, a genre of bamboo carving institutionalised by the Zhu family, and shallow relief carving, bodi yangwen, a feat which Wu himself established.
