Lot n° 311
Estimation :
600 - 800
EUR
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Result
: 550EUR
CHINE - Lot 311
CHINE
Rare tool to massage that we find sometimes to the Chinese scholars to relax after the calligraphy or in the objects of Court. The handle of grip in carved ivory, finished by a silver part in horseshoe enclosing five spheres in amethyst quartz.
XIXe century.
H. : 21.5 cm
To be compared (for the form and the function) with a model of the Mary and Georges Bloch collection (sale Sotheby's 23.10.2005), another example with jade handle coming from the QING Court reproduced in "The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum", Hong-Kong 1985.
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