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A PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A LARGE CELADON JADE embodied the ideal natural environment that
A BADGER BOULDER every true scholar aspired to, and thus brought
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY 17TH CENTURY into their urban studios in miniaturised forms.
A boulder of comparable size and design
the animal recumbent with its tail tucked under carved to the front side with a scholar standing on
is illustrated in Stanley Nott, Voices from
its paws and its head turned to its rear, holding a rocky outcrop holding a brush, beside a stream,
the Flowery Kingdom, New York, 1947, pl.
a lingzhi spray in its mouth, the stone of an pale with two pine trees in a mountainous landscape,
LXIX. Compare also a smaller boulder attributed
celadon tone inscribed shou bi nan shan (May your age be as
to the 18 century and carved in high-relief
th
5 cm, 2 in. the South Mountains), the reverse with rocky
depicting a scene of a Þ gure in a mountainous
crags, the stone of a deep celadon green and pale
£ 4,000-6,000 beige tone with white inclusions and russet ß aws landscape, from the Thannhauser Collection
HK$ 44,200-66,500 US$ 5,700-8,500 26 cm, 10¼ in. and in the DDR Museum, Berlin, included
in the exhibition Schätze Chinas in Museen
૶ɤɞ˰ߏ ڡͣ͗მٺٶ˭Ҫ΁ PROVENANCE der DDR. Kunsthandwerk und Kunst aus vier
Sotheby’s London, 11th March 1969, lot 34. Jahrtausenden, Museum für Völkerkunde,
Dresden, 1989, cat. no. 138; and another
The present piece is notable for the large boulder illustrated in Roger Keverne, Jade, London, 1991,
106 from which the craftsman has skilfully rendered pp.352.
a mountainous scene that follows its natural
A WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A contours and veining. Jade boulders carved with ಳ £ 30,000-40,000
MONKEY a serene scene of a Þ gure dwelling in a pavilion HK$ 332,000-442,000 US$ 42,300-56,500
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY within a landscape was favoured by scholars for
the various values embodied within it. Tina Yee- ɤɖ˰ߏ ڡ͗ज़ྪྡʆɿ
the animal crouched on its haunches and holding wan Pang and Jane Sze, in Virtuous Treasures.
a beribboned precious object in his left paw, Chinese Jades for the Scholar’s Table, Hong Kong, Ը๕
supported by his knees, his right hand holding his 2008, pp 13-14, discuss that objects of this type ࡐ౱ᘽబˢ ϋ ˜ ˚ ᇜ໮
ear, the stone of an even white tone
4.5 cm, 1¾ in.
£ 5,000-8,000
HK$ 55,500-88,500 US$ 7,100-11,300
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