£1,188
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 658
Auction: 5 November 2021 at 10:00 GMT
清末民初 乾隆款 象牙仿根雕人物像
finely rendered from a tusk, depicting an elderly slender figure with benevolent expression, his hair, wrinkles, beard, and ajar-mouth sensitively detailed, holds a staff to his right, back of the staff tied with downward branch issuing cherry blossoms, in imitation of root carving, he wears a robe with burls overall, set on a plinth, the base engraved with a two-character Qianlong mark within meandering border with stiff leaves