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A VERY PALE GREEN JADE BOULDER The present lot is a fine example of the sensitivity of the 18th century
18th century carvers in their use of the natural form of the stone to portray a
Crisply carved as a craggy mountain strewn with pine and wutong literati-style landscape scene. During the Qianlong reign, the Emperor
trees, two bearded sages climb a narrow mountain path up towards instructed that jade mountains, as well as plaques and panels with
a pavilion, all beneath two flying cranes, the reverse with a deer, scenes of mountainous landscapes, take their artistic influence from
the stone of very pale green tone with an emerald-green patch on the work of famous painters. The personal interest of the Emperor, as
the reverse. well as the increased availability of large pieces of Khotan jade after the
15cm (5 7/8in) high. pacification of the area in 1759, prompted a proliferation of production
of jade boulders of varying sizes exquisitely carved with delicate
£15,000 - 20,000 mountain scenes resembling literati landscape paintings.
CNY130,000 - 180,000
See a related pale green and russet jade boulder with sages among
十八世紀 玉雕仙人鹿鶴同春山子 a mountain path, Qing dynasty, illustrated in The Refined Taste of
the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the
Provenance: Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28 April 1993, lot 643 Ch’ing Court, Taipei, 1997, pp.156-157, no.47. Compare also the
present carving to a group of jade mountains carved with landscape
來源：香港蘇富比，1993年4月28日，拍品編號643 motifs from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in the Compendium of
Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, 8, Beijing, 2011, nos.95-98.

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