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Col Hartley's Collection

Gallery 5: Asian Carvings, Ivory and Bone

 


 

MS1301 Lot 409
Chinese Cloisonné Enamel & Ivory Beauty
Chinese figure of a beauty; standing and holding a flower, cloisonné enamel floral robes with delicate detailing to enamels, her head and hand carved from ivory and with fine polychrome; H: 10", wire inlaid wood stand

 

IFA1205 Lot 126
CHINESE CARVED IVORY PLAQUE
象牙雕花鳥桌屏
Superbly carved, Chinese ivory plaque; with relief and openwork design of two birds perched together amid flowering branches springing forth from rockery; H: 7"; openwork wood stand

 

IFA1209 Lot 86
FINE CHINESE CARVED IVORY WRISTREST
象牙雕荷鸕紋臂擱
Superbly carved and finely detailed, Chinese ivory wristrest; the deep concave side carved in high relief with water fowls amid lotus buds, flowers and leaves; H: 7 5/8"; wood stand

 

 

 


ivory okimono
 

 

 


Seal of Ming Emperor Cheng Hua, 1465-1487


Seal

 

 


netsuke and enro

 


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