Chinese Qing 19th Century Carved Bamboo Brush Pots

Chinese Qing 19th Century Carved Bamboo Brush Pots

Two Very nicely carved with a Chinese scene with nice copper applied mounts

Condition : Both brush pots have age related cracking to them and the have old copper repairs ( That I think makes them stand out ) SEE PHOTOS

Height : 31cm

This is a charming antique artist's brush pot, with strong Oriental iconography skilfully carved into a stout piece of bamboo. Delivered waxed, polished and ready to use

Any Questions Welcome.

Chinese Scholars Objects 

It is one of the objects from ‘the scholar’s table’. If you were a Chinese scholar in the middle of the 18th Century – or even the 19th Century – you would have a table, and on it you would have a number of key things: brushes for calligraphy, a Bitong (a brush pot) to put your brushes in, and an ink stone to grind up ink.