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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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