Lot 4

An Assembled Group of Three Asian Wooden Figural Carvings and Sculptures (19th/20th Century)

Estimate: $200 - $400

Price Realized: $166 Includes buyer's premium

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Lot 4
An Assembled Group of Three Asian Wooden Figural Carvings and Sculptures (19th/20th Century)
Description
An assorted collection of Asian cultural wood carvings composed of a prominent seated, rotund scholar or deity figure dressed in long flowing robes and holding a stylized dynamic staff or scroll, a separate architectural model or furniture display panel depicting figures within an intricately carved architectural temple framework, and a heavily sculpted model of a ceremonial caparisoned elephant carrying an ornate multi-tiered canopy howdah occupied by multiple miniature figures atop a matching painted base, measuring largest:
Details
Wood, gilt lacquer, polychrome enamel, pigment
elephant: 19 x 15 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches
Provenance
The Estate of Janice and Donald Rosenthal
Condition
Fair/Poor condition; extensive structural failures including deep cracks and fractured breaks across the main carved bodies, a complete absence of the elephant's tusks, loose structural railings surrounding the upper howdah canopy platform, extensive generalized flaking and shrinkage cracks visible across the structural polychrome and gilt lacquer layers of all three objects, minor wood losses to the projecting fingers and garment extremities of the main seated scholar figure, and typical heavy ancient surface dust embedded within the recessed structural channels


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