Coral carving ''The fairy lady with the pipa lute'', China, Qing dynasty(1644-1911), 19th c., salmon to orange-red coral with elegant milk-white veining, finely carved and highly polished coral figure with elaborate openwork, a palace lady or celestial musician robed in shimmering dress sitting on the garden stool and plucking the pipa lute, to her left a flowering camellia vine rises from the sea rock base, on accurately fitting rosewood base, 16,5x10x2,5cm, 381g