A DOUBLE-BAMBOO 'LIUQING' WRISTREST QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

finely carved and pierced in liu qing technique as two sections of bamboo next to each other connected by blades of leaves and thin branches, with a poetic inscription, signed Lao Binming

Bamboo & Wood Carvings of China and the East, Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1979, cat. no. 102.

The rest is in very good condition with the exception of minor scratches and a slight twist to the body.
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For bamboo wrist rest of this type, see one from the Qing Court collects ion and now in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s exhibition Uncanny Ingenuity and Celestial Feats. The Carvings of Ming and Qing Dynasties, 1999, cat. no. 18.