Brush Holder with Figures in Landscape and Poetic Inscription by Wang
A cylindrical bamboo brush holder carved in relief with a pavilion, pine trees and rocky crags, and a long vertical panel of calligraphic inscription cut into the surface. The warm brown bamboo shows fine tooled detail and a restrained, scholarly landscape composition.
Look closer: A small pavilion is tucked among the rocks on the left side of the carving.
- Artist
- Wang Meilin
- Date
- 1800s
- Medium
- carved bamboo
- Source
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Size
- 3133 × 3400 px
Public domain · The Cleveland Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1899).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Cleveland Museum of Art Open Access, share_license_status=CC0)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund