Description
A good Chinese ivory wrist rest, the convex side carved in bas relief with a female figure beside rock work beneath a robed immortal and a bird amidst cloud scrolls, the reverse elaborately carved in high relief with many small figures in various domestic pursuits, with pagodas and trees beneath mountains, 18th/19th century, 28cm.
Cf. Selected Ivory Carvings for the Sir Victor Sassoon Chinese Ivories Trust, no.17, p.34 for another ivory wrist rest of the same size.
