A LARGE CANTONESE IVORY PUZZLE BALL AND STAND, the stand carved with two figures looking at a book under a pine tree, one figure holding a hoe, above a slighly domed base with an openwork lattice design with trailing peonies in relief, all below a swirling dragon and loose ball, and continuous landscape with scholars, a very finely carved openwork design at the rim, the ball with the exterior carved with a mass of swirling dragons comprising nineteen separate finely carved layers, 19th Century