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A LARGE LAPIS LAZULI CARVED BOULDER
19th century
Naturalistically carved as a pine tree-covered
mountain with a bending river leading to its depth
and pagodas and pavilions, the stone of greenish-
blue tone with rich purplish-blue highlights suffused
with gold speckles and faint mottling, wood stand.
32.5cm (12 3/4in) high. (2).

£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000

十九世紀 青金石山水圖山子

Provenance: Sotheby’s London, 21 July 1969, lot 72
來源: 1969年7月21日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣，拍品721號

Compare with a related lapis lazuli carved boulder,
Qianlong, illustrated in Later Chinese Jade: Ming
Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century: From the Asian
Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco,
2007, p.308, no.354. See also a related lapis lazuli
mountain, 18th/19th century, illustrated in The Tata
Collection of Chinese Antiquities in the Chhatrapati
Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly the
Prince of Wales Museum of Western India), Mumbai,
2002, p.93, no.63.

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176 Y
A RARE AND LARGE CORAL AND MALACHITE
MOUNTAIN
Qing Dynasty
The pinkish-red and creamy-white coral used to
imitate gnarled trees and rocky heights, the green
malachite inlaid to emulate lush grass and shrubs on
a mountain, wood stand.
34cm (13 3/8in) wide. (2).
£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000
清 孔雀石嵌珊瑚山水盆景

來源： 歐洲私人收藏

The literati in China enjoyed the elegant pastime of
‘miniature landscapes’ (shanshui penjing 山水盆景),
such as bonsai, scholars’ rocks, as well as those
made of coral such as the present lot, on their desks
- to imagine themselves among such a mountainous
landscape and to reconnect with nature.

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