Lot 388

CARVED IVORY BOOK OF POEMS Y
REPUBLIC PERIOD




Auction: 9 May 2017 at 16:00 BST
£1,500
Description
naturalistically carved as the Book of Poems from the Tang Dynasty, open to reveal two pages each incised with a scene of figures in a landscape or in a garden, one page inscribed with the poem Autumn Wind by Liu Yuxi, the other with A Mooring Under North Fort Hill by Wang Wan
Dimensions
8.6cm high



