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A FINE IVORY AND HARDSTONE DIORAMA
Circa 1800
Elaborately detailed with a large gathering of scholars in a terraced Provenance
garden setting, variously, playing musical instruments, playing go, An English Private Collection. Received as a wedding gift in Penang
practising calligraphy and painting, a number of boys in attendance in 1884 and thence by descent.
and a goatherd in the background, the overhanging gilt lacquered
trees and shrubs decorated in coral, agate, amber, pearl, kingfisher For other examples of elaborately modelled ivory and hardstone
feather and other hardstones, the figures and garden setting in dioramas in the Victoria and Albert Museum see: a model of a Daoist
polychrome and gilt decorated ivory, set on a carved hongmu stand, temple, accession number 9347 (IS)/1; a model of a mountain scene,
fitted perspex cover and storage case. accession number 9349 (IS); and another similar, accession number
52cm wide x 43cm high x 31.5cm deep (20./1/2in x 17in x 12.3/8in) 9346 (IS). Also see a large ivory model of a temple garden, Hatfield
including the stand. (3). House Collection.

£8,000 - 12,000
HK$86,000 - 130,000
CNY72,000 - 110,000

(details)

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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