Lot Essay
Compare the similar bamboo carving from the Lutz Collection, Denver Art Museum, included in the exhibition, Chinese Bamboo Carving, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, Catalogue, pp. 490-491, no. 175
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A LARGE BAMBOO CARVING OF FIGURES IN A TREE-TRUNK RAFT
QING DYNASTY
The vessel elaborately carved as a long, hollowed-out pine branch curving up at one end, deeply carved on the sides with immortals celebrating the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West, the attendants rowing with either paddles or pine branches, all beneath a canopy formed by the dense branches growing from the sides and tip of the raft, the bamboo of warm reddish-brown tone
21in. (53.4cm.) long, wood stand
QING DYNASTY
The vessel elaborately carved as a long, hollowed-out pine branch curving up at one end, deeply carved on the sides with immortals celebrating the birthday of the Queen Mother of the West, the attendants rowing with either paddles or pine branches, all beneath a canopy formed by the dense branches growing from the sides and tip of the raft, the bamboo of warm reddish-brown tone
21in. (53.4cm.) long, wood stand