Carved bamboo armrest with imagery of a lady, Ming dynasty (1368-1644)
- Image Number: K1G000044N000000000PAB
- Dynasty: Ming dynasty
- Category: Carvings
- Function: Stationery
- Material: Plants/Bamboo/
- Description:
In the late Ming Dynasty, the pattern of “carving bamboo to see a sketch pen container” was derived from the print of “Zhang Shen’s North West Chamber Secret Script”. The cylindrical bamboo surface is carved and transformed into two patterns of plane printmaking, namely “peeping bamboo slips” and “reporting victory”. Meditating Cui Yingying and the witty matchmaker still use the screen to separate their two moods, but the four screens of flowers and black in Chen Hongshou’s original printmaking are simplified into one screen according to the curved surface of the pen barrel. The other side of the design is displayed by elaborately decorated vases and stationery. The lower right corner of the screen is engraved in block script with the word “three loose”. Zhu Sansong was a famous bamboo carver in Jiading in the late Ming Dynasty. He was skilled and learned a lot. The artwork pattern follows and uses Chen Hongshou’s printmaking pattern. There is another “carved bamboo lady arm rest” in the late Ming Dynasty. The pattern carved on the narrow and long shape of the arm rest re combines the relationship between Cui Yingying’s letter reading, the back screen and the table display, and the simplification is also ingenious.
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