Brush Holder with Figures in Landscape and Poetic Inscription by Wang Meilin from Jiading
Medium
carved bamboo
Dimensions
16 × 12.4 cm
Classification
Wood
Department
Chinese Art
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
John L. Severance Fund
Accession Number
1988.75
Tags
male
About this artwork
This bamboo brush holder shows a scholar inside a mountain retreat under trees. On its back side, a cliff inscribed with a text by the Tang poet Bai Juyi (772–846) describes the carefree life of a scholar among family and servants in the countryside. The text in cursive script style calligraphy (xingshu) says: A ten-acre [home], a five-acre yard with a water pool, and a thousand bamboos. Don’t say the field is narrow, or the location remote. It is enough to accommodate the knee and rest the shou...