Brush Holder with Figures in Landscape and Poetic Inscription by Wang Meilin from Jiading
Cleveland Museum of Art

Brush Holder with Figures in Landscape and Poetic Inscription by Wang Meilin from Jiading

Wang Meilin (Chinese, active c. 1825) · 1800s

carved bamboo
CC0 — Public Domain
Cleveland Museum of Art

Bamboo was considered a humble material that suited the Confucian ideals of frugality and modesty.

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