AN IVORY TABLE SCREEN, BRUSHPOT, CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER, AND A SEAL, the screen carved with a crab-apple tree and butterfly, the reverse with two lines of poetry, When the morning sun breaks through the icy clouds a thousand snowy peaks emerge, warm showers bring out the flowers in the rain, 27cm. high; the brushpot carved with an outdoor scene including various animals, 24cm. high; the box carved with a bamboo forest on the body and a band of bats encircling a stylised shou character on the lid, 5.5cm. diam.; the seal with a carved lion playing with a ball, the inscription on the base reading, 'Commander-in-chief of Jiangnan', a further inscription on the side reading, 'By Zhangding in the winter of 1767', 7cm. high, 18th/19th Century (4)

细节

AN IVORY TABLE SCREEN, BRUSHPOT, CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER, AND A SEAL, the screen carved with a crab-apple tree and butterfly, the reverse with two lines of poetry, When the morning sun breaks through the icy clouds a thousand snowy peaks emerge, warm showers bring out the flowers in the rain, 27cm. high; the brushpot carved with an outdoor scene including various animals, 24cm. high; the box carved with a bamboo forest on the body and a band of bats encircling a stylised shou character on the lid, 5.5cm. diam.; the seal with a carved lion playing with a ball, the inscription on the base reading, 'Commander-in-chief of Jiangnan', a further inscription on the side reading, 'By Zhangding in the winter of 1767', 7cm. high, 18th/19th Century (4)

出版

The Catalogue of Sassoon Chinese Ivories, vol.III, P.1295, no.920, p.935, no.645, p.1179, no.837

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