Standing on an open-worked rock base and trampling with his right foot on a three-legged toad, the laughing Immortal is holding a coin in his right hand and carrying a double-gourd flask on his left shoulder.
China, Qing Dynasty, 18th century.
Height: 20,3 cm.
Standing on three cabriole legs the middle part is carved in the skin with a scene of people walking through the cloisters of a temple between meandering bands.
China, late Ming Dynasty, 17th century.
Height: 9,4 cm.
The Immortal sitting on his bag with a smiling face and holding a bat in his right hand, four boys playing around him, one standing on his right arm and pricking him in the ear, another one keeping a box with bats closed. China, Qing Dynasty, 18th century. Height: 14,3 cm.
Overall carved with rounded concentric circles, the inside of the box painted with three large flowers and petals in gold and red.
China, Qing Dynasty, 17th - 18th century.
Diameter: 15 cm.
Height: 6 cm.
Delicately carved with a naked woman sitting in an open shell on a rockwork base, her right hand on her knee her left hand raised while looking up at a dancing male figure to her left.
China, Qing Dynasty, 18th century.
Height: 21 cm.
Sitting on a four-legged platform the lohan is sitting with his left knee raised over which his hands are folded and holding a rosary, a cloth around his waist leaving his emaciated chest bare, his face with open mouth and bushy eyebrows.
China, Qing Dynasty, 18th century.
Height: 18.25 cm.
The Immortal, rarely depicted in bamboo is resting with his left foot on his crutch while holding a
his gourd-shaped flask in his left hand.
China, Qing Dynasty, 18th.-19th. century.
Height: 32 cm.
Carved with three scholars, one of whom is holding a double-gourd, and a servant playing a flute, all sitting under a pine tree amidst rocks, the rim with a copper band. With wooden stand. China, Qing Dynasty, 19th century. Height without stand: 12,8 cm.
Carved as a dragon stretching a rectangular piece of cloth with his claws. His upper neck and head and tail on opposite sides emerging from beneath becoming the handles. The carving of the folds in the corners suggest the tension of the cloth being stretched.
China, 18th-19th century.
Largest length: 44 cm.
Largest width: 32,5 cm.
Dressed in a long coat and wearing the hat of an official the figure is sitting on a horse and holding in his left hand three gold bars against his chest while holding the horse at his manes with his right hand, his laughing face with a long moustache and pointed beard.
China, Qing Dynasty, early 19th. century.
Height: 33,8 cm.
