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A BUFFALO HORN CARVING OF A RAFT
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Unusually carved in the round with five scholars admiring a scroll on a hollowed pine tree raft, the stern of the boat with branches of leafy pine overhanging to give shade, and the sides detailed to suggest the gnarled and knotted bark, all worked from material of a rusty orange tone
7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) wide, stand, box
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Unusually carved in the round with five scholars admiring a scroll on a hollowed pine tree raft, the stern of the boat with branches of leafy pine overhanging to give shade, and the sides detailed to suggest the gnarled and knotted bark, all worked from material of a rusty orange tone
7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) wide, stand, box