AN IVORY WRIST REST, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

• Lot Sold $25,000 (Hammer Price)
• $30,000 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)

of tapering rectangular form, the curved top carved in low relief with a maiden standing in a pavilion garden with pine and willow trees, a thatched hut set high on a rocky ledge among distant peaks, the underside intricately carved and pierced with a procession of Luohan riding on animals and on foot ascending a path through pines towards a dragon emerging from clouds swirling around mountain peaks, fitted wood stand
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31CM

Compare with other carved ivory wrist rests, dated to the early and middle Qing dynasty, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, The Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2002, vol. 44 no. 156 and 157 p. 190-191.
A wrist rest carved with the Eight Immortals was sold Sotheby's Paris, 9th June 2010, lot 51