Sphere
Category
Ivory and bone
Date
Unknown
Materials
Ivory, Silk
Measurements
400 mm (Length); 60 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1339618
Summary
Carved ivory sphere, ball of life with many pierced and concentric shell, elaborate fret designs of temples, trees and figures. At the top is a figure of a standing man holding a wheel, hanging by an ivory chain, with an ivory fish-shaped hook at top. Red silk tassel at the base. Chinese.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.