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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 亞歷桑納的Crystalite珍藏以精美的玉器及翡翠為
主，建立於70至80年代之間。其中部份藏品，如本
The Crystalite Collection in Arizona assembled a fine 拍品，曾於洛杉磯郡立美術館展出過，其他的則出版
collection of jade and jadeite carvings in the 70s and 80s,
some of which, such as the present lot, were exhibited in 於一些知名的玉器或寶石類的專業書籍當中。
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, while some were
included in well-known publications on jade or gemstones.

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A VERY RARE IMPERIAL INSCRIBED WHITE The inscription can be translated: )
Sixteenth Arhat Abhedya
JADE ‘LUOHAN’ GROTTO Wuyin year
Holding a sutra and lighting incense, thus he made his offering
QIANLONG INCISED SIX-CHARACTER MARK, Forsaking his self and his will, with a flick of his fingers
Guan Xiu painted his image, Guan Peng drew his likeness
THE INSCRIPTION DATED TO WUYIN CYCLICAL Yellow flowers and green bamboo, his prevailing omnipresence.

YEAR,CORRESPONDING TO 1758 AND OF THE (

PERIOD

The boulder is carved in the round depicting the Luohan Abhedya
seated on a rock in a grotto holding a sutra in one hand. On one side is
an incense burner and incense box placed on a rock table. On the back
is incised an inscription reading ‘The Sixteenth Luohan Abhedya, wuyin
year’, followed by an Imperial poem eulogising the Sixteen Luohan.
The base is incised with the character yin, a Qianlong reign mark,
and the characters reading ‘sixteen’ in one line.The stone has a pale
greenish-white tone with concentrated areas of milky mottling and
dark brown spots.

8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) high

HK$8,000,000-15,000,000 (US$1,100,000-2,000,000)

清乾隆戊寅年(1758) 白玉御製贊阿必達尊者山子
《寅》、《大清乾隆年造 》、《十六》楷書刻款

PROVENANCE:
Crystalite Collection, Arizona, acquired prior to 1976

EXHIBITED:
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Chinese Jade from
Southern California Collections, Los Angeles, 26 October
1976-6 February 1977, catalogue no. 33

來源：
美國亞歷桑納Crystalite珍藏，入藏於1976年以前
展覽：
洛杉磯郡立美術館，《Chinese Jade from Southern
California Collections, Los Angeles》，1976年
10月26日-1977年2月6日，圖錄圖版33號

The present lot as illustrated in Chinese Jade from Southern California Collections,

Los Angeles, 1976, no. 33
此拍品於1976年洛杉磯出版 Chinese Jade from Southern California Collections

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