A Carved Bamboo Floral Wristrest Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi Period, Dated 1874

of rectangular form, the front convex side finely carved in low relief with a cluster of gently swaying lily flowers, below overhanging branches bearing palmate leaves, inscribed on the upper right with a cyclical date reading 'in the summer of the sixth months of Jiawu year of Tongzhi' (in accordance with 1874), the wood smoothly patinated