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AN IVORY TABLE SCREEN A Uruguayan Private Collection.
18th/19th century
Carved with a figure seated on a mountain path, a gourd flask slung The couplet reads:
at his side, his hands raised before him and face gazing upwards, 道通天地有形外，思入風雲變態中
polychrome pigments remaining, the reverse with a couplet from the
poem “The Occasional Poem in Autumn (qiu ri ou cheng)” composed Which may be translated as:
by the Song neo-Confucian philosopher Cheng Hao.
20.3cm (8in) x 9.5cm (3.3/4in). The formed and the formless are filled with the Tao.
Thoughts are of wind and clouds, always-changing.
£800 - 1,200
CNY6,900 - 10,000 HK$8,000 - 12,000
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