Ivory pine deer pen holder

[Ivory pine deer picture pen holder]

Ivory pine deer picture pen holder, clear, 11.5 cm high, 6.8 cm diameter
The pen holder is round, slightly extravagant in mouth, with a convex arc at the bottom and three short feet. The vessel wall is thin, and the vessel shape is beautiful and regular. The body is decorated with 10 deer swimming in the shade of pines on the grass slope between the rocks. The deer were divided into four groups, including those who looked back independently, those who walked with each other, those who played with each other, and those who stooped to drink, with different postures and reasonable composition. The special feature is that the decoration should be ironed out with a color close to caramel, and the surface has fine cracks and slight peeling due to high temperature. There are also differences between depth and reality in the decoration. For example, the edge of the object image, the eyes, hooves and spine of the deer are all dark, and the effect is quite ingenious
This craft is rare. It is also rare among the many collections of the Palace Museum that apply the decoration of ironing on ivory products and achieve vivid effects


象牙刻松鹿图笔筒局部