A STAINED IVORY 'FIGURES AND MOUNTAIN' CARVING SIGNED QINGXIU, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

skilfully carved in the form of a three-peaked mountain accentuated with green-stained shrubs and trees, the craggy setting rendered with a waterfall cascading into a flowing stream with a bridge over it near the base, below a pavilion set on a rocky promontory, the idyllic scene decorated with three figures, one portrayed crossing the bridge while the other two walk uphill, the base incised with a two-character qingxiu mark

There are age cracks as visible in the catalogue photo. Bruises and chips to the fragile extremities, otherwise good condition.
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A similar ivory mountain carving, from the collection of Marcel Lorber, was sold in our London rooms, 24th April 1987, lot 255; and a more intricately carved example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Masterpieces of Chinese Miniature Crafts in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1971, pl. 27.