A Chinese ivory slender baluster vase with eight lion-mask-ring handles and high domed cover with a pagoda finial containing numerous figures of immortals, carved with a central band of numerous children playing in interiors and on terraces among bamboo and foliage flanked by bands of scrolling foliage surrounding cartouches containing further figures (ivory degraded on sections of vase) -- 11in. high. | Christie's

Sale 4591

Oriental Works of Art and Ceramics

London, South Kensington

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20 March 1992

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Lot 162

A Chinese ivory slender baluster vase with eight lion-mask-ring handles and high domed cover with a pagoda finial containing numerous figures of immortals, carved with a central band of numerous children playing in interiors and on terraces among bamboo and foliage flanked by bands of scrolling foliage surrounding cartouches containing further figures (ivory degraded on sections of vase) -- 11in. high.

Price realised

GBP 3,300

Estimate

GBP 200 - GBP 300

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A Chinese ivory slender baluster vase with eight lion-mask-ring handles and high domed cover with a pagoda finial containing numerous figures of immortals, carved with a central band of numerous children playing in interiors and on terraces among bamboo and foliage flanked by bands of scrolling foliage surrounding cartouches containing further figures (ivory degraded on sections of vase) -- 11in. high.
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