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Tall Chinese Burl Sculpture of Scholar, Early Qing browse these categories for related items... Directory: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1837 VR: item # 904872 Please refer to our stock # FIG92 when inquiring.
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DESCRIPTION: An important Chinese sculpture featuring a Scholar with his boy attendant, carved from a large slab of burl hardwood. The undulations and knobs of the slightly curving burl slab have been beautifully incorporated into the carving, forming the scholar’s garment and top of his curled hat. The bearded scholar looks slightly upward with a pleasing expression and holds a scroll in his hands. At his side is his young attendant gazing upward with a charming smile. Naturalistic Chinese burl carvings have a long and esteemed history, but rarely does one find such a genuinely old carving of this size. From the Estate of Cynthia Phipps, NY, and dating from the Qing Dynasty, early 18th C.
CONDITION: Small worm holes scattered throughout, stable split in beard, tip of scroll and attendant’s right arm missing, block of wood added at some point on back lower base for standing stability. DIMENSIONS: 40” high (1.02 m) x 19” wide (48.3 cm). |
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