CARVED OLIVE PIT 'PLEASURE BOAT'
ZHAN GUSHENG, DATED 1894
Auction: 13 September 2017 at 11:00 BST
£500
Description
skilfully carved with figures gathered in groups on the boat, some looking out of the windows, others dining, the top open to reveal six diners round a table, the bottom inscribed in regular script with the poem Su Shi's Night Travel to the Red Cliff, signed Gusheng, dated the eighth month of jiawu year (1894), 4.3cm long; together with a COMPRESSED AMBER FIGURE OF A GOLDFISH and a HARDSTONE CARVED MINIATURE TRIPOD CENSER AND COVER (3)
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Provenance:
Private English Collection.