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           A SOAPSTONE CARVING OF A MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPE
           Signed Wang Zhu
           The landscape intricately carved with a mountain ridges dotted with
           small pavilions and agricultural scenes surrounded by pine trees,
           gnarled tree trunks and jagged rocks, all beneath high cliffs, traces of
           coloured pigments, signed Wang Zhu.
           21.5cm (8 1/2in) long.

           £2,000 - 3,000
           CNY16,000 - 24,000

           汪洙款壽山石雕山子

           Compare with a similar soapstone model of a landscape, also
           signed Wang Zhu, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (acc.
           no.007862N000000000). Compare also with another soapstone
           mountain, signed Wang Zhu, Qing dynasty, illustrated by Bai Wenyuan,
           ed., Tianjin Museum, Hong Kong, 2012, p.258, no.297.    Image courtesy of the Tianjin Museum





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