A large carved bamboo 'immortals' boulder, Qing dynasty, 18th / 19th century

Compare a closely related bamboo 'immortals' mountain of similar size in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the museum’s exhibition A Garland of Treasures: Masterpieces of Precious Crafts in the Museum Collection, 2014, cat. no. III-34; and another in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Chen Xiejun, Shanghai Museum, Hong Kong, 2007, pl. 326.