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Antique Chinese Polychrome Carving
Mulan
Holding Magnolia Flower
Circa: early-mid 20th century
H 9.5 in.(24cm), W 2 in.(5cm), D 1.75 in.(4.5cm)
Plus 1.25 inch height wood base
Condition: excellent

Lost in thought, the Immortal gently leaning forward holding a blossoming magnolia branch is Mulan (Chinese for magnolia), the brave girl who disguised herself as a boy and took her aged father’s place in battle. Here she appears as a fairy like girl adorned with cascading ribbons, silks and embroideries; an example of the elegance and refinement of the classic romanticism that spanned some six hundred years from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty (1368).

Carved from a single cream color tusk, the work is delicately colored with subtlest tinting on the face, allowing the luminous glow of the ivory to become moist and pearly skin. Intricately carved dainty fingers are tipped with pink fingernails. Her sweet, sad features are precisely limned with the finest imaginable strokes of the brush. The hair is beautifully carved and stained, wrapped into a high chignon, part of it gathered into a bow at the back and cascading almost to her waist, with a feathery fringe of bangs at the front. An alluringly beautiful carving, highly detailed and perfectly finished. --RW

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