Page 40 - 2019 September 10th Sotheby's Important Chinese Art Jades, Met Museum Irving Collection NYC

10 㶭 侈 AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE
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昮ġġġ 晽 APPLE-GREEN JADEITE
Ⱉ ‘LANDSCAPE’ TABLE SCREEN
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⚾ QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
㍺ the horizontal rectangular panel Þ nely carved to one side in
Ⰳ relief with a riverscape, the water ß owing diagonally from the
upper right side and broadening toward the lower left corner,
sailboats and Þ shing ski! s plying rippling waters, the near bank
with docked boats and a small village with buildings and gardens,
the opposite bank also with cabins and docked boats but backed
by a massive fortiÞ ed city wall stretching into the distance,
an enormous temple complex including a stupa-form censer,
pagoda, shrine, multi-tier temple, and monastic cells beyond the
wall, a second pagoda rising from the mountains in the distance,
the reverse unadorned, the stone an icy white with bright apple-
green veins throughout and a small russet patch at the lower
corner, hongmu stand (2)

Width 8⅜ in., 21.2 cm

PROVENANCE Ը๕
Collection of Sir Isaac (1897-1991) and Lady Wolfson. ŊŴŢŢŤġŘŰŭŧŴŰůġ䇝⢓ġĩIJĹĺĸĮIJĺĺIJĪġằ⃟㓞啷
Sotheby’s London, 8th June 1982, lot 311. ΐ㔎喯⭴㭼IJĺĹij⸜ķ㚰Ĺ㖍炻䶐嘇ĴIJIJ
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) ἃ伭ΐ㕗ġĩIJĺijıĮijıIJĹĪġ⍲崓ỗ䈡ġĩIJĺIJĸĮijıIJķĪɀ
Irving, no. 402. 㫸暚ằ⃟㓞啷炻䶐嘇ĵıij
$ 80,000-120,000

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