A RARE FINELY CARVED BAMBOO-ROOT 'IMMORTAL AND CHILD' GROUP QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY finely carved as an immortal and a young boy standing on a lingzhi-shaped cloud base, the immortal depicted with his head held up and stroking one end of his bifurcated beard with his right hand, his hair neatly combed into two buns atop his head, adorned in long flowing robes tied loosely below his waist, revealing his chest and protruding stomach, his robes delicately incised with floral embroidery designs with a double-gourd attached on his backside, the child depicted standing to the immortal's right and looking up at him, similarly adorned in loose flowing robes with his hair neatly combed into two double-buns on the sides of his head, holding a lingzhi stem in both hands securely, the bamboo of a warm golden-brown colour 18.4 cm., 7 1/4 in.
A RARE FINELY CARVED BAMBOO-ROOT 'IMMORTAL AND CHILD' GROUP QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY finely carved as an immortal and a young boy standing on a lingzhi-shaped cloud base, the immortal depicted with his head held up and stroking one end of his bifurcated beard with his right hand, his hair neatly combed into two buns atop his head, adorned in long flowing robes tied loosely below his waist, revealing his chest and protruding stomach, his robes delicately incised with floral embroidery designs with a double-gourd attached on his backside, the child depicted standing to the immortal's right and looking up at him, similarly adorned in loose flowing robes with his hair neatly combed into two double-buns on the sides of his head, holding a lingzhi stem in both hands securely, the bamboo of a warm golden-brown colour 18.4 cm., 7 1/4 in.
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