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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 紳士藏品

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AN IMPERIALLY-INSCRIBED WHITE AND RUSSET JADE
‘BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION’ BOULDER
First half of the 18th century, two-character seal mark Chun He
The attractive even-toned white stone retaining its characteristic russet
skin and crisply carved in various relief 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).

HK$5,000,000 - 8,000,000
US$640,000 - 1,000,000

十八世紀上半葉 御製白玉巧雕仙童祝壽山子
「如南山之壽以介景福」、「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
An important Asian private collection

來源：
蘇格蘭私人舊藏，於1901至1906年間蒐集於中國，後由家族繼承
重要亞洲私人收藏

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