A SMALL BLUE CHALCEDONY CARVING OF A SAMPAN

18TH CENTURY

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A SMALL BLUE CHALCEDONY CARVING OF A SAMPAN
18TH CENTURY
Well carved with one man seated in the stern casting a fishing net with one hand and steering the boat with the other, while the other fisherman is asleep with his head resting on a sack in front of the canopy, with waves carved along the sides, a small splash of red in the pale blue-grey stone used to highlight the net
3 in. (7.7 cm) long, wood stand

Provenance

Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., London, 1999.

Exhibited

Oriental Works of Art, Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., London, 8 - 26 June 1999, no. 62.

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Lot Essay

Fine miniature carvings of this type were the kind of treasured object that would have been tucked into the treasure boxes kept by the Qianlong Emperor, such as those illustrated by Wen C. Fong and James C.Y. Watt in Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996, pp. 550-52.

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