H. 14,7 cm Condition A MINIATURE IVORY CARVING OF HUA MULAN BY YU SHUO (1873- after 1940), FRAMED ON A WOOD STAND, China, dated 1931. Engraved is a long poem about the heroine Hua Mulan, signed: "Minguo ershi nian xinwei chunri xiaoxuan yu shuo" (By Yu Shuo alias Xiaoxuan, in the spring of the year xinwei, 20th year of the Republic [1931]). Yu Shuo, alias Xiaoxuan, from today's Yangzhou, was a very famous micro carver.-Formerly property from a European private collection-Ivory in good condition, wood frame with age crack and part. lost silver inlays