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18TH CENTURY
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**A Rare Pair of Ivory and Lacquered Wood Figures of Female Immortals
18th Century
Each shown standing on a spreading painted wood base with arms in a graceful gesture and wearing an unusual over-robe gathered in bows at the knees and overlaid with a cape and apron reversed on each figure in either feathers or 'embroidered' textile, one with a sprig of lingzhi fungus slung over her shoulder, the other with a sprig hung from her belt, the ivory faces delicately carved
12½in. (32cm.) high (2)
18th Century
Each shown standing on a spreading painted wood base with arms in a graceful gesture and wearing an unusual over-robe gathered in bows at the knees and overlaid with a cape and apron reversed on each figure in either feathers or 'embroidered' textile, one with a sprig of lingzhi fungus slung over her shoulder, the other with a sprig hung from her belt, the ivory faces delicately carved
12½in. (32cm.) high (2)
Provenance
Spink & Son, London