Two ivory wrist-rests. Late Qing dynasty/Republican period - image-1 Two ivory wrist-rests. Late Qing dynasty/Republican period - image-2 Two ivory wrist-rests. Late Qing dynasty/Republican period - image-3

Lot 114 D ‡ α

Two ivory wrist-rests. Late Qing dynasty/Republican period

Auction 1235 - overview Cologne
08.12.2023, 11:30 - India/Southeast Asia, Tibet/Nepal, China, Korea and Japan
Estimate: 2.500 € - 3.000 €
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Two ivory wrist-rests. Late Qing dynasty/Republican period

Both carved in sunken relief, a) with a fighting scene with warriors on horseback, a bridge, and a city wall, on the reverse two monks standing on clouds, and b) a judge sitting at a table and Daoist deities, on the reverse a scholar with boy servant in a landscape. (2)
Length a) 33.2 cm; b) 26.6 cm

晚清/民國 象牙雕人物紋臂擱兩件
来源：丹麦哥本哈根私人收藏，於20世紀50年代/60年代收藏，此後為家族所有

Provenance

Private collection, Copenhagen, assembled in the 1950s/60s, thence by descent