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A bamboo-imitation \u2018zitan\u2019 scroll weight (18th century)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Dimensions: 26.7cm high<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Provenance:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Ji Zhen Zhai Collection (Collection of Treasures of the Studio)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exhibited:<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>\u2018Treasures of the Chinese Scholar\u2019<\/em>, The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 14 March 1998 \u2013 3 January 1999, no C68<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illustrated:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2018<em>Treasures of the Chinese Scholar Studio\u2019<\/em>, Fan Jing Pei, New York &amp; Tokyo, 1997, fig. 104, p. 113<\/p>\n<p>The scroll weight naturalistically carved from \u2018zitan\u2019 with the centre of the scroll weight hollowed out to imitate bamboo segments. The two sections inscribed with a poem by the artist Yang Shoulong \u6768\u82b3\u707f with a square mark reading \u2018Shou Nong Yang Shi\u2019\u00a0 \u5b88\u5f04\u6768\u6c0f\u201d, which is attributed to the artist.<\/p>\n<p>The poem is translated as follows:<br \/>\n<em>\u2018With definite thoughts in mind, writing is expressed through the hand. A twin bamboo section can be precious as jade, joining mind and matter, so that one may write with force and authority an essay of eighteen pages. Establish this as an epitaph so that such rules will always be observed.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em>Scroll weights would have been used by Chinese scholars to keep scrolls or books open, and to prevent them from rolling closed. First used in the Tang dynasty, scroll weights became even more popular as decorative objects in their own right in the Ming dynasty, not just executed in the more traditional materials like bronze, jade and precious stones, but often also executed in copper, silver and gold. This example from the height of the Qing dynasty is an excellent example of the taste for scholar\u2019s objects executed in imitation of a different material in this period.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a318,000<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dimensions: 26.7cm high Provenance: Ji Zhen Zhai Collec [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20435,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[838],"product_tag":[362,839,427,852,485],"class_list":{"0":"post-20624","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-asian-art-in-london-2023-objects-for-the-scholars-table","7":"product_tag-18th-century","8":"product_tag-asian-art-in-london-2023","9":"product_tag-bamboo","10":"product_tag-scroll-weight","11":"product_tag-zitan","12":"has-post-title","13":"has-post-date","14":"has-post-category","15":"has-post-tag","16":"has-post-comment","17":"has-post-author","18":"","20":"first","21":"instock","22":"shipping-taxable","23":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>20. 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