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Antique Chinese Figure Carving
Lin Daiyu
Dream of Red Chamber
Signature: unsigned. Circa: early 1900s'
H 6.5 in.(16.5cm), W 1.75 in.(4.5cm), D 1 in.(2.5m)
Measurement not including custom wood base

Condition: very good!

The Quing Dynasty Chinese novel, The Dream of the Red Chamber, (Hong Lou Meng) is considered the quintessence of Chinese literary prowess. It is a multi-cast multi-generational tale of love, karma, the rise and fall of fortunes and the playing out of destinies through lives.

The central female character in the novel is an exquisite Lin Daiyu. She is a well-educated and intelligent woman prone to waves of high emotion. An ethereal creature it is said that she is the reincarnation of the vermillion pearl (the "Crimson Pearl Flower"). Stormed by exotic and often erratic behaviors, Lin Daiyu was overcome by the beauty. Indeed so devastating was even a single flower to her highly sensitized aesthetic that she was compelled to bury the blooms deep in the rich soil from which it grew. So rich was life that she sheds a thousand-and-one tears.

This early 20th century, Chinese ivory elegantly depicts the maiden Lin Daiyu. Swathed in cloud mist robes that are reminiscent of the curls of clouds on holy mountains, she is perched on an extremely delicate stand that conveys the subtle ground of earth and mountains. Her coiffure is elegant: swept up with multiple sumptuous ponytails and a refined, delicate headdress. She firmly carries a bamboo hoe. In her arched left arm, she balances a basket of blooms.

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