**THREE PAINTED IVORY APPLIQUES

Property from the Estate of Marc Haas

Details

**THREE PAINTED IVORY APPLIQUES
18TH CENTURY

Each finely carved: one depicting two boys, one holding a circular drum at his shoulder, the other holding castanets, wearing loose, belted robes, their hair pulled up in topknots; the second applique carved as two smiling female musicians wearing loose, rippling robes, one holding a cloth-wrapped qin; the third carved in high relief as a bald-headed boy wearing earrings and bracelets squatting as he prepares to catch a large ball; all with traces of pigment and two with traces of gilding
4 5/8, 5½ and 4 3/8in. (11.7, 14 and 11.1cm.) high, black velvet mounts (3)

Lot Essay

The applique of the two boys was included in the exhibition, The Minor Arts of China III, Spink & Son Ltd., London, March 31-April 16, 1987, Catalogue, no. 38. The applique of the female musicians was included in the exhibition, Ivories of China and the East, Spink & Son, Ltd., London, November 8-23, 1984, Catalogue, no. 32