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142-IMPERIAL WEDDING GIFT (Ch'ien-lung)
Coral statuette of Lan Ts'ai-ho, of the eight Taoist genii,
carrying her basket of flowers. The tall, standing, lithe-
some figure is carved from a single piece of richly mottled
pink coral, with her abundant robes hanging in natural
folds, and a high headdress, and she is shown smiling. In
one hand she holds a branch of the sacred fungus. With
the other she supports over her shoulder the basket of
flowers depending from a bamboo branch, the flower-basket
and branch being separately carved and attached. She
stands on an openwork teakwood stand carved in the cloud
motive and adorned with symbolic bats in green-tinted
ivory, this in turn mounted on two other stands of the
same materials, and enclosed in a case.
H eight of coral, 21 inches.