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
Rights
Public Domain
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...