清十八 / 十九世紀 白玉竹形臂擱

the stone of a milky white tone with russet-brown skin, naturalistically carved as a flattened section of bamboo culm, deftly adorned in low relief with a leafy shoot growing from a node

《盛世華章》，英國皇家藝術學院，倫敦，2005-6年，頁227，編號140

There are a a couple of very minute nicks along the upper edge of the narrow end on one side, a few other minuscule nicks on the top of the left edge on the underside, but overall the wristrest is in very good condition. The actual colour is a fraction more celadon and the skin somewhat more brown when compared to the catalogue illustration.
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