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Lot 1040Y

A large tinted ivory tusk with figural decoration
20th Century

28 July 2009, 10:00 PDT
San Francisco

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A large tinted ivory tusk with figural decoration

20th Century
Carved and undercut to either side with the 'Eighteen Lohan' in a forest landscape, each of the Buddhist sages portrayed with his particular attribute(s) and clothed in patterned robes heightened with colored pigment, with two Chinese seven-character poetic quatrains picked out in black pigment, bearing the signature Shuo Gyokusai.
39in (99cm) long

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Provenance: purchased before 1980

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