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106 Y Ф Compare with a related stained ivory brush washer in the Palace
A STAINED IVORY ‘LINGZHI’ BRUSHWASHER Museum, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Qianlong Palace Museum: Small Refined Articles of the Study, Shenzhen, 2009,
Finely carved in the form of a shallow section of a large lingzhi fungus p.128, no.99. Compare another one also in the Palace Museum,
with two cloudlike swirls, issuing further lingzhi and green leafy tendrils illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
that curl into the interior, naturalistically carved with two crawling Museum: Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, Hong
beetles and a delicate orchid. Kong, 2002, p.202, no.166.
19cm (7 1/2in) wide

£5,000 - 8,000 CNY46,000 - 73,000
HK$55,000 - 88,000

清乾隆 染牙靈芝筆掭

Provenance: a European private collection, acquired between
1960-70, and thence by descent

來源：歐洲私人收藏，蒐於1960至1970年間，並由後人保存迄今

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