Chinese Soapstone Brush Washer with Lotus Blossoms and Birds, Three Containers

Chinese Soapstone Brush Washer with Lotus Blossoms and Birds, Three Containers Soapstone, carved from a single block. Brush washer, also known as a brush washing vessel, in the form of an openwork rocky landscape with three containers: two shallow oval hollows side by side, above them a third cup. The light grey-beige stone shows dark grey to black inclusions, which the carver has used for the rock passages and the branches; the light zones are worked into lotus blossoms, leaves and seed heads,

Category

Asian art

Location

Quedlinburg