AN INSCRIBED BOXWOOD FIGURE OF A SEATED SCHOLAR CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY Well carved as a scholar with wizened face holding a book in his right hand while seated beneath the overhanging branch of the log-form raft in which he sits, the sides of the raft lapped by waves, the reverse carved with five inscriptions: one reading Huiting zi ti (Huiting inscribed (this) himself), another reading jichou liu yue shi nian liushi you wu (In May of the year jichou (1769 or 1829), at the age of sixty-five) 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high Provenance Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 30 April-2 May 1991, lot 142. Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1992. The Irving Collection, no. 3811.
AN INSCRIBED BOXWOOD FIGURE OF A SEATED SCHOLAR CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY Well carved as a scholar with wizened face holding a book in his right hand while seated beneath the overhanging branch of the log-form raft in which he sits, the sides of the raft lapped by waves, the reverse carved with five inscriptions: one reading Huiting zi ti (Huiting inscribed (this) himself), another reading jichou liu yue shi nian liushi you wu (In May of the year jichou (1769 or 1829), at the age of sixty-five) 9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high Provenance Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 30 April-2 May 1991, lot 142. Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1992. The Irving Collection, no. 3811.
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