18TH/19TH CENTURY
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A SMALL IVORY RECTANGULAR TABLE SCREEN
18TH/19TH CENTURY
One side finely carved in low relief with a grouping of archaic bronzes including a chariot jingle, the reverse with a famous poem by the poet, Li Bai, Xing Han Luo Bi Yao Wu Yue, Shi Cheng Xiao Ao Ling Cang Zhou, which may be translated as follows 'moved to put brush to paper, my words shake the five mountains. The poem completed, laughing loudly, I stand high over land and water.'
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high, stand
18TH/19TH CENTURY
One side finely carved in low relief with a grouping of archaic bronzes including a chariot jingle, the reverse with a famous poem by the poet, Li Bai, Xing Han Luo Bi Yao Wu Yue, Shi Cheng Xiao Ao Ling Cang Zhou, which may be translated as follows 'moved to put brush to paper, my words shake the five mountains. The poem completed, laughing loudly, I stand high over land and water.'
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high, stand
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