of cylindrical form, raised on three feet, the exterior deftly carved in various levels of relief, depicting a seated scholar supporting an umbrella on a sampan boat steered by a boatman behind, journeying across a flowing river framed by craggy rockwork with occasional leafy shrubs and overhanging gnarled pine billowing in the wind, inscribed on the rock face with a cyclical date of wuchen year (in accordance with 1688 or 1748) and signed Sansong

近代著名金石學家褚德彝（1871-1942年）收藏，約1931年（盒上銘文）
趙從衍（1912-1999年）收藏，此後家族傳承

The brushpot is in good condition with some expected minute nicks to the edges. There are several age cracks as consistent with age, the longest measuring approx. 2.3 cm.
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盒上題識：
朱三松雕輕舟出峽圖竹筆筒。辛未年正月十六日。松窗審定題。
鈐印：德彝

本品雕刻刀法嫻熟，運控自如，頗見功力：器身山石高浮，力道遒勁；流水淺凹，輕巧順暢；人物開臉、衣褶更是流轉細膩，靈動逼真。筆筒刻陰文朱稚征款。朱稚征，號三松，嘉定人，活躍於十七世紀上半葉，乃朱纓之子，朱鶴之孫，祖孫三人皆為竹刻名家。三松竹雕自成一派，明末清初多經仿效。其大量減地高浮雕刻之手法，於順治、康熙兩朝廣受追捧。

可比一相類高浮雕紋飾筆筒，為葉義醫生珍庋，錄於葉義醫生及譚志成，《中國竹雕藝術》，上冊，香港，1978年，圖版73；另比較一類例，關善明收藏，展於《虛心傲節．明清竹刻史話》，香港中文大學文物館，香港，2000年，編號31；再參考一例，售於香港蘇富比1979年5月25日，編號874；第四例，售於紐約蘇富比1982年2月26日，編號315；倫敦蘇富比1990年12月11日，亦售一相似筆筒例，編號108。此外，可比較一三松款「竹林七賢」筆筒，藏台北故宮博物院，刊於《匠心與仙工：明清雕刻展》，台北，2009年，編號6。

「高士泛舟」紋飾，隱喻士大夫出世歸山，遠離朝堂之憧憬，為明清兩朝竹雕常見題材。其外，岩壁林立，亦或表現🐻蘇軾之「🌟赤壁賦」，此題材之作，常飾於案頭，廣為文人所好。