Hardstone Carving of an Official

Description:

Hardstone Carving of an Official, China, with a smile on his face, standing on rockery with lingzhi mushrooms, holding a boat-shaped silver sycee ingot in his raised right hand and a ruyi scepter in his left hand folded at his waist belt, against a coin-shape halo with a bat knot around his head, stone of white with wisps of russet inclusions, ht. 10 1/2 in.
Estimate $250-300


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