A fine Chinese bamboo bitong 18th century

A fine Chinese bamboo bitong 18th century, well carved in high relief with a narrative scene of figures before a bamboo grove, to one side pine, maple and other trees amongst rocks, the reverse with a small bridge over a mountain stream, with hardwood mounts to the foot and rim, 15.2cm high.

Provenance: from a titled English family in the New Forest.

Cf. The Palace Museum, Beijing, Bamboo, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn, p.35 for a similarly mounted bitong from the early Qing Dynasty.

十八世紀  竹雕攜琴訪友筆筒

來源：英國紐弗羅斯特地區貴族收藏