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A LARGE PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE 清十八世㈵ 青白玉福祿า̾星山子
'DAOIST IMMORTALS' BOULDER
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18TH CENTURY 紐☼蘇富比
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拍品編號
-+;珍藏
美४
The boulder is well-carved with three robed figures, likely the three Daoist immortals Shoulao,
Fuxing and Luxing, amidst a rocky landscape with pine trees and prunus. The center of the 展覽
boulder features two pavilions and a flaming vessel on top of a terrace. The reverse is carved 美४聖安東尼奧
聖安東尼奧美術館
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:FBST PG $IJOFTF +BEFǚ
年 月
with pine trees and vines amidst rocky outcroppings. The softly polished stone is of pale
日 年 月 日
greenish-white tone and has some opaque white mottling and russet coloring.
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10 in. (25.4 cm.) wide, 9 in. (22.9 cm.) high, hardwood stand
+ +PIOTPO及陳麗碧
Ǘ :FBST PG
$100,000-150,000 $IJOFTF +BEFǘ
聖安東尼奧
年
頁
編號
" $BSUFS
Ǘ5IF -+; $PMMFDUJPO PG $IJOFTF
PROVENANCE:
+BEFTǘ
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頁
編號
Sotheby's New York, 17 September 1998, lot 21.
The LJZ Collection, United States.
EXHIBITED:
San Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art, 5000 Years of Chinese Jade, 1 October 2011-
19 February 2012.
LITERATURE:
J. Johnson and Chan Lai Pik, 5000 Years of Chinese Jade, San Antonio, 2011, p. 108, no. 72.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 101-3, no. 44.

In China, mountains were considered the dwellings of immortals, and the reverence in
which they were held can be seen in the use of mountain-form rocks as an object of
contemplation on a scholar’s table, as well as in their depiction in jade and other materials
such as various hardstones, bronze and porcelain in mountain-form brush rests. The
examples in jade were made in various sizes, and depicted an imagined mountainous
setting usually representing a retreat for scholars, their figures seen amidst the rocky
landscape where gnarled trees grow, and where pavilions and temples await them. As
with the present jade mountain, a mountain of comparable size in the Qing Court
Collection illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum -
42 - Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 86, pl. 73, depicts scholars and pavilions carved
in high relief on the side of the mountain, all below a censer placed on the upper-most
ledge. Although jade mountains may have depicted many of the same elements, they are
completely individualistic, exhibiting the artistry and imagination of the carver.

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