清 紫檀陰刻撫琴觀瀑圖筆筒

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英文品名：A ZITAN BRUSHPOT INCISED WITH A 'PLAYING THE QIN, VIEWING THE WATERFALL' LANDSCAPE, QING DYNASTY 尺寸：D:20cm;H:20cm 此筆筒紫檀木整挖，作直筒形，口沿、底沿起窄邊。器身陰刻山水：長松虯枝臨壑，遠山飛瀑，一人於松下撫琴，石逕橋梁隱現其間。刻痕內以淺色填描，與紫檀黑地相映。筒身上沿陰刻行書題額「撫琴觀瀑」，左側豎行題「甲辰春日 寫於寒山」，下綴方形篆印（署名未能盡辨）。木質細膩沉靜，牛毛紋隱現，包漿瑩潤。紫檀，木質堅重，色紫黑，紋理細如牛毛，為明清家具與文房首選良材。陰刻筆筒，於木面上以刀代筆，刻山石樹木而不施厚彩，取宋元山水「筆墨含蓄」之趣。清代紫檀雕筆筒最盛，名匠如吳之璠、朱三松皆以陰淺刻見長，一器之微，可窺當時文人山水之好。 This brushpot is hollowed from a single piece of zitan wood in a straight cylindrical form, with narrow rim and foot. The body is incised with a landscape: tall pines over a ravine, a distant waterfall, a scholar playing the qin beneath the trees, a path and bridge half-seen. The incised lines are lightly filled in pale tone against the dark zitan ground. Along the upper rim is incised the running-script title 'Playing the qin, viewing the waterfall'; on the left vertical columns read 'Spring day, Jiachen year, painted at Cold Mountain', below a square seal-script seal (the signature cannot be fully read). The wood is fine and calm, with hidden ox-hair grain and a lustrous patina. Zitan, dense and heavy, purple-black with fine ox-hair grain, was the premier wood for Ming-Qing furniture and scholar's wares. Incised brushpots used the knife as a brush, carving rocks and trees without heavy colour, recalling the spare ink language of Song-Yuan landscape painting. Zitan brushpots flourished in the Qing; masters such as Wu Zhifan and Zhu Sansong excelled at shallow incised work, a small object revealing the literati love of landscape.

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