十七／十八世紀 竹雕留青「山水庭閣」圖筆筒 《丙辰初夏倣元人筆意》《張希黃》款 《張宗略印》《希黃》印

of circular section, skilfully carved in liuqing technique around the sides with a painterly lakeside landscape of pavilions and different varieties of trees emerging from rocky islands, two scholars sitting around a stone table in the foreground, their heads turned to an approaching attendant, below a multitude of craggy mountains in the far-distance, all lightly carved through the paler ochre skin to the rich reddish-brown body beneath, an inscription reading Bingchen chuxia fang Yuan ren biyi ('Imitating the brush style of the Yuan masters in the early summer of bingchen year'), signed Zhang Xihuang, followed by the seals reading Zhang Zonglue yin and Xihuang, the surface with lustrous patina

日本私人收藏（得於二十世紀前半葉）
香港佳士得2002年10月28日，編號748

Apart from some fine vertical age cracks, the overall condition is very good. The interior is stained with ink from years of use.
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本品出自中國竹雕大師張宗略之手。宗略，號希黃，或云江蘇江陰人。張氏活躍於明末清初時期，創留青竹刻之技，聞名於世。其法以竹青作花，竹肌為地，竹筠色淺，年久微黃，竹肌年久則色深，其雕層次分明，明晦有致，因景而施，奇趣紛呈。

由題刻銘文可知，張氏倣元人筆意，本品雕刻山水亭閣景緻，以畫入竹，青筠去留，精準得宜，人物點綴，巧製生動，充分展示中國傳統筆墨氣韻，盡顯張氏高超之審美趣味與精湛技藝。

張希黃署款雕亭閣山水筆筒，可見於 Craig Clunas，《Art in China》，牛津，1997年，圖版102 或 R. Soame Jenyns，《Chinese Art: The Minor Arts II》，倫敦，1965年，圖版198。紐約大都會藝術博物館藏張希黃款筆筒，雕飾歐陽修《醉翁亭記》故事，詳見其博物館官方網站。

另有上海博物館及葉義醫生藏留青竹雕筆筒例，分別載於《中國美術全集－工藝美術編11：竹木牙角器》，北京，1987年，頁8，圖版8，與葉義及譚志成，《中國竹刻藝術》，香港，1978年，上冊，圖版83及彩圖25，可資比對。亦見華盛頓弗利爾美術館藏筆筒，器形纖細，署張希黃款（出處同上，彩圖16及17）。

也有少數張希黃作品見於拍賣：一件希黃款山水筆筒，售於香港蘇富比2010年10月8日，編號2184；另一件類例，器身環飾山水，同樣售於香港蘇富比，2006年4月10日，編號1654；第三件作例，售於倫敦蘇富比1976年12月14日，編號230；第四件張希黃款山水圖筆筒，售於紐約佳士得2007年9月19日，編號19。