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1176 A LARGE INSCRIBED MOTTLED GREYISH GREEN AND WHITE
JADE BOULDER
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
The front well carved with two scholars crossing a rocky ledge below PROVENANCE
a pavilion, with a fve-character inscription carved in a line to the left of Floyd and Josephine Segel Collection.
the wutong tree in the center near a waterfall that empties into a natural Major John Court Collection.
pool in the rocks, all below a lengthy poetic inscription inscribed on a Roger Keverne, London.
plain rockface above, the reverse carved with a bridge and trees amidst The Irving Collection.
further rockfaces, the stone of pale grey-green color with opaque areas EXHIBITED
of ivory color London, Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics -
9Ω in. (24.1 cm.) wide, ftted walnut stand Winter Exhibition, November 2004.
$20,000-30,000 LITERATURE
Barry Till and Paula Swart, “Mountain Retreats in Jade,” Arts of Asia,
July-August, 1986, p. 50.
Roger Keverne, Fine and Rare Chinese Works of Art and Ceramics -
Winter Exhibition, London, 2004, p. 91, no. 105.

The fve-character inscription reads Wu Shan di yi quan and may be
translated, “the number one stream of
Mt. Wu,” and the poetic inscription refers to the scene.

清十九世紀 青白玉雕訪友圖大山子

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