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19TH AND 20TH CENTURY
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A GROUP OF FOUR BAMBOO WRIST RESTS
19TH AND 20TH CENTURY
The group comprises a wrist rest carved with birds flying in a rocky landscape, inscribed with a gengzi cyclical date of the Daoguang era, corresponding to 1840; two smaller wrist rests carved with bamboo and a mountainous landscape; and a wrist rest carved in the form of bamboo stems laid beside each other.
The largest, 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) long
19TH AND 20TH CENTURY
The group comprises a wrist rest carved with birds flying in a rocky landscape, inscribed with a gengzi cyclical date of the Daoguang era, corresponding to 1840; two smaller wrist rests carved with bamboo and a mountainous landscape; and a wrist rest carved in the form of bamboo stems laid beside each other.
The largest, 7 ½ in. (19 cm.) long
Provenance
Property from a Private Asian Collection, predominantly assembled in the 1980s and 1990s.
Special notice
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