May 19, 2007

Peach pit carving. The pit heads, from cherry, plum and other fruit pits. A carved elephant peach pit on a base. More complex carving.
posted by nickyskye 17 years ago
  • Ooh I love this sort of thing, thanks nicky. Knew nothing about this, so I had a look round some Chinese pages and found this series of pictures accompanying an interview with a carver called Ms. Chen Suying from Suzhou and some of her work, and a Qing dynasty example from the Palace Museum in Taiwan.
  • Never realized this was such an old (and developed) art form. I have owned several of these carvings over the years--actually DID have a monkey one once. I still have a couple of those baskets. I just always thought it was a "circa-1943 waitress named Vera with too many dateless Saturday nights and too many extra peach pits on her hands" kind of thing.
  • Hi Abiezer_Coppe, Nice to see you here. :) I was hoping sombody would have pictures of the really nice Chinese peach pit carvings. I wasn't able to upload the first link. My wifi has been really slow lately. But loved the exquisite little boat in your second link. So charming. Thank you. moko jono, it's interesting what people do for a hobby, art and fun. It's always amused me when people create astonishing carvings out of small objects, like the pencil or crayon ones. But a peach pit is quite difficult to carve because it's a hard and brittle material. Even more difficult a hard and tiny olive pit. Guess some people like challenges.
  • Well I haven't carved it up at the Peach Pit since Brandon and Steve stopped hanging out with Dylan, and I'm sure as hell not going to start now.
  • I wasn't able to upload the first link. My wifi has been really slow lately Sure, blame your Wifey for everything. Men are such pigs.
  • heh.
  • Nice post! My folks brought back a string of bizarre, highly-carved beads when they traveled to China in the mid-80s. On viewing these, I realized what they were carved from. Thanks, nickyskye.