A carved Chinese ivory tusk, 19th century Made from one long, stately tusk, depicting a landscape comprised of buildings, fences, temples and pagodas within a dense forest, populated by over 400 extremely finely modelled figures. Some of the buildings with minimal flaws. On a two-piece wood stand carved with flowers. Length 151 cm. Length of tusk 164 cm (measured along the external curvature). Landscape scenes carved from a tusk have always been very popular, pieces of such size and quality as the present one are however extremely rare. historic,, Additional-Rights-Clearance-Info-Not-Available

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Keywords: 19th, carved, century, china, chinese, ivory, long, tusk