[Bamboo carved orchid pavilion picture incense tube]
Bamboo carved orchid pavilion picture flower tube, clear, 15 cm high, 4.6 cm diameter, 4.8 cm bottom diameter
Barrel type, thin and thin, inlaid with wood bottom. The outer wall is covered with decorative patterns, mainly carved, depicting the elegant collection of literati in the landscape and forest. The scenery is well arranged, and the characters are divided into three groups, either walking together slowly, or talking in the pavilion, or composing a play with water flowing. The latter is the point pen. It can be seen that the decoration came from the interpretation of the story of Lanting
This device should be made from a kind of incense tube. The carving is complex and exquisite, and the hollow-out is polished and smooth, which can show the three-dimensional effect of local scenery. Through the change of perspective, each scene is connected with each other, and the skillful transformation of high and low staggered into deep feeling is a technique derived from the traditional composition method, and also represents the customary way of the design of this kind of utensil decoration
![图片[1]-Bamboo carving orchid pavilion picture incense tube-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qing dynasty/Bamboo and wood tooth gourd/55560.jpg)
竹雕兰亭图花筒
竹雕兰亭图花筒
竹雕兰亭图花筒
竹雕兰亭图花筒




![[Qing Dynasty] British female painter—Elizabeth Keith, using woodblock prints to record China from the late Qing Dynasty to the early Republic of China—1915-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/image-191x300.png)
