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Jade boulders carved with this motif are highly unusual, and ⇣㬌䲳梦ᷳ䌱Ⱉ䓂䁢份夳炻㒂䎦㗪姀庱ㅱ䁢⬌
no closely related example appears to have been published. ἳ炻ⓗ⎗㭼庫烉ᶾ⽟➪㓞啷炻㚦⯽㕤㓷㯪䱦况˪ᷕ
A boulder carved with cranes, in the Sze Tak Tang Collection,
⚳䌱晽˫炻楁㷗喅埻棐炻楁㷗炻IJĺĹĴ⸜炻䶐嘇ijĴĺ烊
was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition Chinese Jade
Carving, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. ΐ㔎Ἓ⢓⼿Ṏ㚦ⓖᶨἳ炻⇣曰渧ẁ浜炻ⓖ㕤IJĺĺı
239; one with cranes and deer was sold at Christie’s London, ⸜IJij㚰IJı㖍炻䶐嘇ijIJĶ烊⽟⬱➪㓞啷ᶨ曰䋜䌱Ⱉἳ炻
10th December 1990, lot 215; a boulder with monkeys, in the De
㚦⯽㕤˪䌱䶋烉⽟⬱➪啷䌱˫炻㓭⭖⌂䈑昊炻⊿
An Tang Collection, was included in the exhibition A Romance
with Jade, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2004, cat. no. 56, another Ṕ炻ijııĵ⸜炻䶐嘇Ķķˤ⎎ᶨἳⓖ㕤ΐ㔎Ἓ⢓⼿IJĺĹĹ
was sold at Christie’s London, 6th June 1988, lot 3; and a further ⸜ķ㚰ķ㖍炻䶐嘇Ĵ烊ℵ㭼ᶨἳ炻⇣榧楔炻ⓖ㕤䲸䲬
example carved with horses, was sold in these rooms, 23rd
喯㭼IJĺĺĶ⸜ĺ㚰ijĴ㖍炻䶐嘇ijĸĹˤ⯂㚱ᶨ䡏䌱Ⱉ⫸
September 1995, lot 278. See also a much larger spinach-green
jade boulder carved with chicks and inscribed with a poem ἳ炻⯢⮠怈庫㛔⑩䁢⣏炻ⷞḦ昮⽉墥娑炻ⓖ㕤楁
composed by the Qianlong Emperor, sold in our Hong Kong 㷗喯㭼ijıIJIJ⸜ĵ㚰Ĺ㖍炻䶐嘇ijĹIJijˤ
rooms, 8th April 2011, lot 2812.
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