Details
Shaped in the form of a mountain, this piece of boxwood is carved in relief with figures participating in a chess game amidst naturalistic scenery, with a hidden cave, and monkeys clambering up pine trees adjacent to a bridge on the reverse.

10⅛ in. (25.6 cm.) wide


Literature
University Museum and Art Gallery of The University of Hong Kong, Enlightening Pursuits: Scholars Objects from the Mengdiexuan Collection, Hong Kong, 2006, no. 128
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