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Brush holder with "Three Friends of the Winter" and poem
The Qianlong emperor particularly valued novelty and tromp l’oeil effects on artworks. Ornamented with the emperor’s own poem and painting, this brush pot perfectly exemplifies this aesthetic while demonstrating a never-before-seen feature: gold inlaid into a completely blackened bronze surface, mimicking the appearance of gold painting on dark paper. The technique of pressing gold foil into grooves on the vessel surface, rather than using parcel gilding or gold wire inlay, was also novel.
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