Description: Pair of different bamboo wrist rests - China, Qing dynasty, 18th / 19th century, bamboo
wood finely carved and lacquered, the top section carved in low relief with a scholar sitting under a tree or a pilgrim with a staff and a gourd ( eventually the Immortal Li Tieguai), each signed in the upper right area, different measures c.19,2x5,2cm bzw.ca.16,3x4,5cm, designed as an aid for scholars in the painstaking arts of calligraphy and brush painting, wrist rests were long made in China in carved wood and jade as well as ivory and other semiprecious materials