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WORKS OF ART IVORY
A FINE AND VERY RARE IVORY 'PHOENIX' PLAQUE, of triangular shape carved around a flying phoenix with outstretched wings and trailing tail on a pierced ground of clouds, the reverse hollowed by repeated drilling, the rim pierced three times for attachment, the ivory darkened to brown in some areas (small crack repaired), Yuan/early Ming Dynasty

细节
A FINE AND VERY RARE IVORY 'PHOENIX' PLAQUE, of triangular shape carved around a flying phoenix with outstretched wings and trailing tail on a pierced ground of clouds, the reverse hollowed by repeated drilling, the rim pierced three times for attachment, the ivory darkened to brown in some areas (small crack repaired), Yuan/early Ming Dynasty
13cm. long

拍品专文

Compare the treatment of the phoenixes on the frieze of the Nanking Temple Pagoda, dated to the Five Dynasties/Southern Tang period, illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Five Dynasties and Song Sculpture, p.5. Compare also the jade plaque oin the Shanghai Musem of Art illustrated by Abrahams in the Catalogue, pl.195