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fig. 1 A pale green jade boulder, Qing Dy-   The Property of an English Family 英國家族藏品
nasty; image courtesy of the Palace Museum,
Beijing.                                     150
                                             A fine pale green jade ‘Eight Immortals’ boulder
186 | Bonhams                                18th century
                                             The pale green stone intricately carved with a scene of the Eight
                                             Immortals, four with distinctive caps and three leaning on staffs and one
                                             holding up a peach, the figures accompanied by two boy attendants
                                             while crossing an arched bridge along a narrow rocky path cut from
                                             an overhanging cliff amongst sparse pine trees, a lingzhi fungus and
                                             a pagoda in the distance, the reverse carved with a deer and a flying
                                             crane on one side of a steep waterfall and another crane beneath a
                                             branch laden with peaches on the other side of the stream, carved
                                             wood stand.
                                             25.7cm (10in) wide (2).
                                             £20,000 - 30,000
                                             HK$240,000 - 350,000 CNY190,000 - 280,000

                                             十八世紀 青玉雕八仙圖山子

                                             Provenance: of Sir Edward Hulton, Bart., probably acquired in the
                                             1920s, and thence by descent

                                             來源:Sir Edward Hulton從男爵收藏,或得於1920年代,並由家族繼
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