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七 78. Sampan with arch-shaped open-ended cabin with a square mat laid on the incised roof, the standing helmsman holding a rudder and
十 wearing long robes and a fisherman’s hat, beside a jardinière with a fruiting lingzhi, all on a diaper ground, the bow with a recumbent
八 deer and crane holding a fruiting peach branch in its mouth, the underside incised with swirling crested waves, the stone white.

6 15/16 inches, 17.7 cm long.
漁 Qianlong, 1736-1795.
船 Carved wood wave-form stand.

白 • From the collection of Lt. Col. John Grenville Fortescue (1896-1969), of Dropmore, Buckinghamshire, and Boconnoc,
玉 Cornwall, thence by descent.

乾 • Sold by John Sparks, circa 1960.
隆 • A similar boat is illustrated by Robert Kleiner in Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, no. 165, p. 215;

another is illustrated by James C. Y. Watt in Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, no. 64, p. 86, where the

John Grenville Fortescue author notes, ‘this type of boat is to be found on the rivers and lakes of the Jiangnan region, where Suzhou is situated’; a further

example, also with a square mat on top of the cabin, is illustrated by Marchant in their 80th anniversary exhibition of Chinese

Jades from Han to Qing, 2005, no. 88, pp. 100/1; a smaller example with a recumbent dog at the bow, is illustrated by Yun Xi

Zheng in The Collection of Jades in the Tianjin City Art Museum, pl. 223.

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