This was purchased about 25 years ago during a trip to China. It's an ornament, and I've kept it on display in the reception room. This is a Chinese cork carving (Chinese cork art). Cork is made into a board, and intricate carvings are made with a thin carving knife, as if drawing a picture. It is housed in a glass case, and the pavilions, landscapes, and pine trees are expressed three-dimensionally. It has a black decorative base. It is known as a traditional Chinese work of art and craft.