A CHINESE FINELY CARVED SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF LI TIEGUAI

A CHINESE FINELY CARVED SOAPSTONE FIGURE OF LI TIEGUAI, 17TH/18TH C seated half length, his left hand holding his iron crutch, 17cm h and a portrait miniature of the collector Claude Calthrop with the figure, pained by Horace Taylor in Geneva in 1918, gouache on card (2)Provenance: Claude David Usticke Calthrop (1893-1921) First Secretary General of the Rhineland High Commission, Coblenz, by whom possibly acquired in Switzerland or Germany; thence by descent to the present owner