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A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE BOULDER
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
清乾隆 青白玉浮雕山水高士圖山子
the substantial flattened boulder of irregular mountain
form, deftly carved in various levels of relief, depicting on
one face a sage standing on a rocky ledge looking towards
a young attendant reaching for a prunus tree, set amidst a
mountainous landscape with pine, overhanging wutong, leafy
shrubs and distant pavilion, the reverse worked through the
russet skin in low relief with pine and wutong growing from
cragged mountains, the stone of an even celadon tone with
russet veining, wood stand
19.8 cm, 7¾ in.
HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 51,000-76,500
