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PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTOR

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A CELADON JADE CARVING OF AN IMMORTAL IN A RAFT WITH CARVED IVORY STAND
18TH CENTURY

The raft is carved in the form of an openwork tree-trunk section with a phoenix seated beside pine and
lingzhi branches. The fgure is standing wearing long robes and holding a ruyi sceptre. The stone is of an
even tone. The ivory stand is stained in green and red and is carved and pierced with gourds and fowers
intertwining amongst rocks.
9º in. (23.5 cm.) long

£30,000-50,000 $43,000-70,000
€38,000-63,000

PROVENANCE:

With John Sparks Ltd., London.
From the collection of a distinguished private European collector, acquired in London in the 1960s.

清十八世紀 青玉高士泛舟擺件配染色象牙底座

來源:歐洲重要私人珍藏，於1960年代購自倫敦; 倫敦古董商John Sparks

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