CHINA, END OF THE 19th CENTURY - Lot 43

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CHINA, END OF THE 19th CENTURY - Lot 43
CHINA, END OF THE 19th CENTURY A scholar's object or painter's bucket with a small basin for a brush and a flared opening for a brush-holder, in carved carnelian agate with a deer, two bats, longevity peaches and a peach blossom in relief, resting on a wooden base, possibly in zitan, carved and openworked with rocks, ruyi, leaves and bamboo branches. On a second wooden base. H. vase: 12.2 cm - L. vase: 15.3 cm - Total dimensions with base: 15.5 x 16.5 cm (Accident to the head of the deer) Provenance Private collection of Monsieur Auguste Gérard (1852-1922), French ambassador to China (1893-1897) and Japan (1907-1913). Then by descent to the present owner. Lot possibly mentioned as "rock crystal and pink jade group" in the twelfth line (p.3) of the inventory of objects entrusted by Monsieur Auguste Gérard, French ambassador to Tokyo, to M. Paul du Toict, Bould. du Régent 25 in Brussels in 1906. An anonymized copy of the page concerning this lot may be delivered to the buyer.
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