Hand carved asian miniatures

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The sort of corpulent figures here, commonly called Ho Tai; Buddhai is another name. No, the quality is quite good, which is what makes these interesting. Chinese Ivory Carvings, ca. My suspicion was that they might be late Qing Dynasty, perhaps. And if it were just the detail, that would be one thing, but it's beyond the detail. And this is a Quan Yin, and some fortune Buddhas, a couple of monks, a snuff bottle, a smaller Buddha, a panel with some monk scenes in it, carved tusk shape. And does that mean that the quality is bad?

What's really interesting is the way that this imitation was done. The sort of corpulent figures here, commonly called Ho Tai; Buddhai is another name. Well, I appreciate Oriental art a great deal, but I also appreciate elephants, too, so Now, particularly this panel here and the tusk here, and actually the Quan Yin, all are very conscious imitations of what you would find for the Qing Dynasty. Now, that was all induced by heat, so it was sort of a way to speed up the aging process to make it look older than it was.