TWO CARVED IVORY BRUSHPOTS LATE MING – EARLY QING DYNASTY |

the largest well carved in low relief with foreign merchant bivouacking on the silk road by moonlight, with a camel and a walled gate in the distance, inscribed with a four characters poem pertaining to the scene, the smaller brushpot carved in the form of a section of bamboo with to insects hovering by

Good overall condition with expected age cracks, some stabilised to the smaller brushpot. There are typical minor nicks to the fragile edges. Each brushpot is carved separately from the base, the larger one possible later married.
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