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115 * Compare a related boulder similarly carved with a meditating
Bodhidharma in a grotto from the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
A fine very pale green jade boulder dated to the Qianlong period, illustrated in The Refined Taste of the
18th century Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the
The rich and lustrous pale green stone with some attractive Ch’ing Court, Taipei, 1997, pl.39.
staining, formed as a remote mountain pine grove enclosing a lone
Bodhidharma seated cross-legged in meditation wrapped in his robe
beside a waterfall, the reverse also with pine branches growing from
craggy rocks.
17.2cm (6¾in) high
£30,000 - 50,000
HK$370,000 - 620,000 CNY290,000 - 490,000
十八世紀 青玉雕達摩圖山子
Provenance: an English private collection
來源:英國私人收藏
Image courtesy of the
National Palace Museum, Taipei
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