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Beautiful Zitan Carving of Man in Boat browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art: Pre 1900: item # 71515
Ichiban Japanese & Oriental Antiques Post Office Box 395 Marion, CT 06444-0395 203.272.7392 Guest Book SOLD - $3,995.00 |
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| An extraordinary Chinese carving in the rarest of rare woods - Zitan Wood (purple sandlewood). It depicts a man paddling a boat with a palm frond. In front of him is a young boy holding a palm leaf with a beetle on it. 8" long X 4" wide X 7" tall - incredibly fine detailed carving - a heavy piece, it weighs 1 1/4 pounds. Mint condition - NO chips or nicks. This is easily the finest Zitan wood figural carving we have ever had in the collection. I believe this one to date from the 19th century - probably sometime between 1870's and 1900. This zitan carving of two men in the boat is a particularly fascinating piece. When I was in San Francisco last summer, I visited the new Asian Art Museum there. At the museum I saw an almost identical carving done in jade. The museum identified it as Ming period and that the subject was the two monks known as the Zen mad monks, Kanzan and Jittoku. The Chinese hermits known in Japanese as Kanzan (Hanshan in Chinese) and Jittoku (Shide in Chinese), lived near the sacred mountain Tiantaishan during the Tang dynasty (618AD-907AD). The two pieces were so much alike that we feel quite confident in saying that this zitan carving is of Hanshan and Shide and that it clearly dates from no later than the 1850s and very possibly much earlier. | |||||||||||||
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