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A large very pale green jade boulder 18th century (2) image 1
A large very pale green jade boulder 18th century (2) image 2
Lot 71

A large very pale green jade boulder
18th century

10 November 2016, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A large very pale green jade boulder

18th century
Crisply carved in varying relief with two whiskered sages on a curving path in a rugged mountainous landscape enclosing a pavilion, surrounded by gnarled pine and wutong trees, the reverse carved with two deer in a similar setting, the stone of a very pale green tone with some light-brown inclusions; wood stand.
17cm (6 5/8in) high (2).

Footnotes

十八世紀 青白玉高士賞遊圖山子


Provenance: a European private collection, acquired in Hong Kong on 3 June 1965

來源: 歐洲私人收藏,於1965年6月3日購自香港

Jade carvings representing idyllic mountainous landscape scenes were popular with scholars during the Qing Dynasty, frequently portraying a single or larger number of sages often accompanied by their attendants. Such mountain carving would have graced the scholar's desk, inspiring contemplation when studying the peaceful contours of the austere jade cliffs, the two sages making their way towards the pagoda hanging on a precipice, above the gnarled evergreen pine on the one side and the pair of deer on the other, representing long life.

Compare a related but larger pale green jade boulder, Qing dynasty, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 8 Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2010, pl.100. For another example, see the pale green jade mountain, 18th century, in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, illustrated by S.Little, Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China, Cleveland, 1988, pl.21.

A related pale celadon jade boulder, Qianlong, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong on 27 November 2007, lot 1510.

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