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A LARGE GREY AND BLACK JADE MOUNTAIN
18th century
Carefully worked as a double-sided mountainous landscape, one side
with a traveling scholar and his attendant crossing a stone bridge on
the left, the right with two elderly scholars admiring an overhanging
wutong tree entangled in winding vines and stone steps leading
towards a pavilion, the reverse featuring two deer beside a waterfall
with another distant pavilion against a background of rocky outcrop
and pine trees issuing from crags and crevices, the stone of a greyish
tone with black and dark brown natural inclusions, wood stand.
22.5cm (8 7/8in) wide (2).

HK$250,000 - 350,000
US$32,000 - 45,000

十八世紀 青灰玉雕松山祝壽圖大山子

Provenance 來源:
A European private collection

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Evocative mountainous landscape scenes carved with scholars, sages
and symbolic animals, were much admired during the 18th century,
providing the literati class with inspiration and a momentary escape to
idealised pursuits taken between official posts or on retirement.

The present jade mountain is a testament to the exceptional skills
of the jade craftsmanship in the 18th century. The masterful carving
is demonstrated by the successful carving of the harmonious
mountainous landscape unto the jade stone. Consider the naturalistic
rendering of the creeping vines draped around the gnarled cypress,
the three-dimensional figural carvings with their facial expressions finely
detailed and the craggy overhanging cliffs and cascading waterfall.

See a related spinach-green jade boulder, Qianlong, of similar subject
matter, from the Michael S.L. Liu collection, illustrated in Virtuous
Treasures: Chinese Jades for the Scholar’s Table, Hong Kong, 2008,
pl.34. A pair of white jade circular screens, Qing dynasty, with similar
subject matter, from the Qing Court collection, is illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (II),
Shanghai, 2008, pl.61. Compare a related pale greyish-green and
russet jade mountain, 17th/18th century, sold at Christie’s New York,
13-14 September 2012, lot 1019.

可比較劉瑞隆先生藏一清乾隆碧玉雕山子，所雕題材與本器相似，參
考香港大學美術博物館，《閣有天珍：中國文房玉雕》，香港，2008
，圖版34。清宮舊藏一對圓形插屏可資對比，所飾主題亦與本器類
似，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集：玉器(II)》，上海，2008年，圖
版61；再參考一件十七/十八世紀灰青玉拖皮雕山子，售於紐約佳士
得，2012年9月13-14日，編號1019。

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