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A puzzle ball on display at the Overseas Museum, Bremen. A Chinese puzzle ball, sometimes known as a devil's work ball (Chinese: 鬼工球; pinyin: guǐ gōng qiú) or the Concentric Ball (Chinese: 同心球; pinyin: tóng xīn qiú), is a Chinese-made artifact that consists of a number of intricately carved concentric hollow spheres carved from a single solid block that fit within one another ...
It is not uncommon, especially on older figures, for the woman to be depicted with small pointed feet, representative of the practice of foot binding which was common in China until the 20th century. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The figures typically measure anywhere from 75 to 150 mm (3.0 to 5.9 in) in length. [ 5 ]
But ivory, as well as bone, had been used for various items since early times when China still had its own species of elephant. Demand for ivory seems to have played a large part in their extinction, which came before 100 BC. During the Ming dynasty, ivory began to be used for small statuettes of gods and others (see gallery). In the Qing ...
For all these reasons, the figures have not shared in the huge increase in Chinese art prices since the 1990s, which has been driven by Chinese collectors. The record price for a horse remains £3,740,000, [77] from a sale by the British Rail Pension Fund at Sotheby's in 1989. In 2002 the dealer who had sold this piece to the pension fund in ...
Zhang Qian (−114 BCE) too, the famous traveler to the western regions, had rudimentary stone statues of lions placed at his mausoleum. [11] [12] These precursors of Chinese monumental stone sculpture were probably influenced by their forays deep into Central Asia, where they probably encountered cultures using stone statues. [11]
Ivorine: a material made from the dust created when carving legally obtained new ivory, mammoth ivory, tusks, and teeth, which is then mixed with a clear resin and compressed as it hardens. This was one of the many solutions to the demand of the tourist market trade for netsuke carvings after trade in new ivory became illegal. Once hard and dry ...
"Today, we're going to give it an insurance valuation of $150,000 to $200,000," said appraiser Allan Katz on "Antiques Roadshow." "That's extraordinary," said the tooth's owner. Ain't that the tooth!
Today, the market for Chinese art, both antique and contemporary, is widely reported to be among the hottest and fastest-growing in the world, attracting buyers all over the world. [ 58 ] [ 59 ] [ 60 ] The Voice of America reported in 2006 that modern Chinese art is raking in record prices both internationally and in domestic markets, some ...