A RARE AMBER MOUNTAIN CARVING

18TH CENTURY

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A RARE AMBER MOUNTAIN CARVING
18TH CENTURY
Well carved on one side from opaque areas of the amber with a large monkey seated with its paw resting on the head of a younger monkey while another approaches carrying a peach, on the reverse a recumbent deer is shown beneath two birds perched in a flowering prunus branch, with various flowers and lingzhi rising from the base
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) long, wood stand

Provenance

Private English collection.

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Lot Essay

A slightly larger amber carving (10.5 cm. high) carved on one side with monkeys and lions, where the different colors and combination of translucency and opaqueness in the amber can be seen, is illustrated by B. Till and P. Swart in Soul of the Tiger - Chinese Amber Carvings from the Reif Collection, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1999, p. 42, where it is dated 18th/19th century.

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