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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN The present boulder, with its powerful three- Compare a similar example illustrated in Jessica
dimensional rendering of a luohan seated beside Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to
A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE
a mythical beast amongst a grotto, served not the Qing, London, 1995, pp. 409-410, cat. no.
‘LUOHAN’ BOULDER only as a symbolic religious imagery, but also 29:19. The bold vertical edges of the rock face
QING DYNASTY excelled as a work of art in its own right. and the gnarled tree branch overhanging above
the luohan share remarkable similarities to
worked with a seated luohan, possibly Vijraputra, A number of jade mountains or boulder with
seated within a rocky grotto beneath gnarled similar subjects is known in worldwide collections, the current piece. A slightly taller boulder also
wutong branches, the figure rendered clad in including the British Museum (inv. no. 1930.12- attributed to the 18th-19th century, formerly in
the collection of the T.B. Walker Foundation, was
loose robes with a recumbent mythical beast 17.15) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
next to him, the reverse of the boulder further York. Jessica Rawson noted that inspiration of sold in these rooms, 20th October 1988, lot 191.
rendered with pine branches, the celadon stone the subject matter may have originated from
with russet patches woodblock prints from the eighteenth-century
12 cm, 4⅜ in. publication Guyu Tu Pu (‘Collection of Ancient
Jade Drawing’).
PROVENANCE
Spink & Son Ltd, London (label).
HK$ 80,000-100,000
US$ 10,300-12,900

清 青白玉雕羅漢山子
來源：
Spink & Son Ltd，倫敦（標籤）

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