Collection of 20th Century Carved Wood Oriental Items
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Five carved wood Oriental items, 20th century comprising a large Balinese carved figure of a woman standing, a carved wood ruyi sceptre in the form of a lingzhi mushroom stem with squirrels and bat, possibly boxwood, a carved teak cigarette box with a hinged cover, relief decorated to the domed top and sides with a foliate tree and tendrils, a carved guanyin and child atop a dragon, a carved spoon with a figural handle, a pierced dragons and phoenix circular panel. Length 59 cm, and smaller and diameter: 33 cm
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- Foliate - Decorated with leaves or leaf-like forms.
- Boxwood - Boxwood is a hard, yellow coloured, close grained timber. In the 19th century it was often used for inlays, especially stringing, because of its contrasting colour to the darker timbers of the carcase. Stringing is the inlay of a narrow strip of veneer of a lighter colour, such as boxwood along or close to the edges of an object that has been veneered in a darker timber such as mahogany.
Because of its fine grain and resistnce to splitting or chipping it has also been used for treen, turnings, carvings and other small wooden items, such as chess pieces.
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