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The Property of a Gentleman 紳士藏品
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                                                                                               A very rare Imperial white and russet jade
                                                                                               boulder
                                                                                               First half of the 18th century, signed Chunhe
                                                                                               The even-toned white stone retaining its characteristic russet skin
                                                                                               and crisply carved with one boy proferring a box supporting a bat
                                                                                               to another boy floating on a thick cloud and holding aloft a double
                                                                                               gourd issuing swirling smoke amidst further bats in flight, the boys
                                                                                               divided by a waterfall and stream and surrounded by pine, wutong
                                                                                               and rocks, the reverse with a pine tree issuing from craggy rocks
                                                                                               carved with an Imperial inscription, box.
                                                                                               11.3cm (4½in) wide (2).
                                                                                               £30,000 - 50,000
                                                                                               HK$370,000 - 620,000	CNY290,000 - 490,000
                                                                                               十八世紀前半期 御製白玉帶皮雕山水人物圖山子 「春和」篆書刻款
                                                                                               Provenance: a Scottish private collection; according to the family
                                                                                               acquired in China between 1901 and 1906, and thence by descent
                                                                                               來源:蘇格蘭私人收藏,據說約於1901至1906年間購於中國,並由
                                                                                               家族繼承下去

Prince Yunli (1697-1738), Prince Guo of the First Rank,
the seventeenth son of the Kangxi Emperor;
image courtesy of the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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