A FINE GROUP OF CARVED NUTS AND SEEDS QING DYNASTY Comprising a walnut carved with the monkey-god and dozens of smaller monkeys clinging from rocky outcrops and fruiting branches below palms, with the inscription Hua Guo Shan ; pits and seeds carved with either deities, dignitaries, young boys, skulls, precious objects or boats; four rosaries, one with beads carved as Luohan , one carved with differing scenes of scholars in landscape settings, one with boys below trees, and one inscribed with sutras; a strand of beads with each of the zodiac animals; a pair of large sead pods with incised figures of ladies and long inscriptions to the reverse; a small bamboo seal carved with a quail amid flowers; boxwood and bamboo carvings of Buddhistic lions and frogs; an octagonal bead with landscape sceens; a figure of Buddha within a bamboo case the largest 1 5/8in. (4cm.) high (105)
A FINE GROUP OF CARVED NUTS AND SEEDS QING DYNASTY Comprising a walnut carved with the monkey-god and dozens of smaller monkeys clinging from rocky outcrops and fruiting branches below palms, with the inscription Hua Guo Shan ; pits and seeds carved with either deities, dignitaries, young boys, skulls, precious objects or boats; four rosaries, one with beads carved as Luohan , one carved with differing scenes of scholars in landscape settings, one with boys below trees, and one inscribed with sutras; a strand of beads with each of the zodiac animals; a pair of large sead pods with incised figures of ladies and long inscriptions to the reverse; a small bamboo seal carved with a quail amid flowers; boxwood and bamboo carvings of Buddhistic lions and frogs; an octagonal bead with landscape sceens; a figure of Buddha within a bamboo case the largest 1 5/8in. (4cm.) high (105)
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