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15 㶭 䡏 A FINELY CARVED LARGE
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昮ġġġ 晽 SPINACH-GREEN JADE
⣑ ‘IMMORTALS’ BRUSHPOT
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ḅ QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
⤪ the cylindrical body set over Þ ve ruyi-form feet, the sides
⚾ deftly carved in high relief with nine immortals in a mountain
䫮 retreat surrounded by rocky peaks, waterfalls, pines, and
䫺 other vegetation, one side with six of the men gathered on a
balustraded terrace, each with a long beard, voluminous robe,
and a sprig of lingzhi, the terrace with a double-roof pavilion
at one side and branching into two balustraded paths at the
opposite side, one path zigzagging up the mountain to distant
pavilion, the other winding behind a diagonal ridge of rockwork
then crossing over a cascading waterfall and turning uphill
to a temple with a large tripod censer at the entryway, three
immortals gathered in front of the temple, two of them holding
lingzhi and the third holding a scroll, a craggy ridge rising at a
diagonal alongside the temple, on the opposite side of the ridge
two deer resting amidst lingzhi beneath a willow and a wutong
tree, the ß at base centered with a slightly recessed circle, the
stone a deep spinach-green color variegated with lighter green
passages

Height 6⅝ in., 16.9 cm

$ 500,000-700,000
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PROVENANCE
Collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), Fonthill House, Tisbury, 刦⺿䐆ɀ卓慴㢖炷IJĹijIJĮIJĹĺĸ炸㓞啷炻㓦Ⱉ⯭炻
Wiltshire, no. 233. 吪㕗ỗ慴炻⦩䇦䈡悉炻䶐嘇ijĴĴ
Christie’s London, 9th July 1980, lot 105. ΐ㔎Ἓ⢓⼿IJĺĹı⸜ĸ㚰ĺ㖍炻䶐嘇IJıĶ
Donald J. Wineman, New York, 24th August 1981, no. 85. ŅŰůŢŭťġŋįġŘŪůŦŮŢů炻䲸䲬炻IJĺĹIJ⸜Ĺ㚰ijĵ㖍炻䶐嘇ĹĶ
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) ἃ伭ΐ㕗ġĩIJĺijıĮijıIJĹĪġ⍲崓ỗ䈡ġĩIJĺIJĸĮijıIJķĪɀ㫸暚
Irving, no. 352.
ằ⃟㓞啷炻䶐嘇ĴĶij

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