Copper pen holder

[Copper pen holder]

Copper pen holder, clear, 4.8 cm high, 9 cm wide and 5 cm thick. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The pen holder is in the shape of a five-peak mountain, made of red copper and attached with a wooden base. Although the implement is simple, the shape of the mountain also has high and low levels. On several cases, it looks like the mountains and rivers in the eye, which is quite interesting
The pen holder, also known as the pen bed, pen frame, and pen hill, is a special tool for temporarily placing or holding pens on ancient bookcases. It was created with the use of pen. According to the documents, the pen style appeared in the Southern Dynasty. Lu Guimeng, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem, “I set my pen in the misty haze and opened the sand bed for examination alone”. People in the Song and Ming dynasties are also known as the pen style. The texture of the pen holder includes various jade carvings, copper gilding, archaize copper, Ge kiln, Ding kiln, wood, etc. The shape includes mountain shape, cat shape, twelve peaks shape, three mountains and five mountains shape, and the natural wood shape is better without chiseling. The pen holders of the Ming and Qing dynasties collected by the Palace Museum are very rich in texture and style