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PROPERTY FROM THE MENGDIEXUAN COLLECTION
A CARVED BOXWOOD MOUNTAIN

QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

    Price Realised HKD 25,000
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    HKD 20,000 - HKD 30,000
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    A CARVED BOXWOOD MOUNTAIN

    QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

    Price Realised HKD 25,000
    Price Realised HKD 25,000
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    Shaped in the form of a mountain, this piece of boxwood is carved in relief with figures participating in a chess game amidst naturalistic scenery, with a hidden cave, and monkeys clambering up pine trees adjacent to a bridge on the reverse.

    10⅛ in. (25.6 cm.) wide


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    University Museum and Art Gallery of The University of Hong Kong, Enlightening Pursuits: Scholar’s Objects from the Mengdiexuan Collection, Hong Kong, 2006, no. 128
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