Five Chinese ivory carvings

The first is carved as a dancing lady with an elaborate hairdo wearing billowing scarves, her right hand holds a fan and her left hand holds a branch of flowers. The carving is decorated with pigments and gilt. The second is carved and pierced as a long boat with figures at leisure, and articulated windows and lanterns. The third is carved as a small girl holding a peony bunch. The fourth is carved and pierced as a landscape with a farmer leading a water buffalo and a girl paddling a boat, all below wisteria trees in a rocky landscape before a lotus pond. The fifth is carved as a head of Guanyin wearing a pierced crown centred with a figure of Amitaba Buddha, the base is incised with an apocryphal mark reading 'Da Qing'. All of the carvings with wood stands.

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