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A PALE CELADON JADE ZODIAC FIGURE OF A A RARE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE The present lot belongs to a small group of similarly
RABBIT ‘SCHOLAR’ MOUNTAIN reticulated and carved jade mountains attributed to the
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY SONG - YUAN DYNASTY Song to Yuan dynasties. Compare a jade mountain in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, carved with a very similar
seated with the right hand holding a fan and the left hand skillfully rendered following the natural form of the scholar scene, attributed to the Southern Song - Yuan
holding a branch, dressed in a loosely draped robe, the stone boulder, the sides intricately carved in openwork with dynasty, exhibited in Dynastic Renaissance Art and Culture
of very pale celadon-white tone, wood stand (2) a scholar standing in a long flowing robe and donning a of the Southern Song Antiquities, National Palace Museum,
Height 2¼ in., 5.8 cm
dongpojin (Dongpo hat), positioned between a mythical Taipei, 2010, cat. no. III-45. See also a related jade mountain
tortoise emitting vapor and a deer grasping a lingzhi sprig, from the Qing Court Collection, now in the Palace Museum,
$ 3,000-5,000 accompanied by an attendant holding a large leaf, all set Beijing, attributed to the Song dynasty, published in The
within a dense landscape of pierced rockwork, gnarled trees Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum.
and scrolling clouds, the softly polished stone of an even Jadeware (II), Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 94, together with a Liao/
清十八 / 十九世紀 青白玉雕生肖兔擺件 color with russet skin to the top Jin example, pl. 99.
Height 5⅛ in., 13 cm For examples sold at auction, see a jade mountain formerly
in the collection of C. Philip Cardeiro, attributed to the Jin/
186 Yuan dynasty, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27th May 2014,
lot 3246; another attributed to the Liao-Yuan dynasty, sold
A PALE CELADON JADE RUYI-SHAPED at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th November 2016, lot 3440;
‘CHILONG’ WASHER and a third from the collection of Baroness Marie-Louise von
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY Callenberg, attributed to the Yuan dynasty, sold at Christie’s
Paris, 18th December 2012, lot 10.
modeled in the form of a ruyi head with lobed sides rising
from a short foot, the interior carved with a bifurcated $ 20,000-30,000
chilong, the exterior delicately carved with leafy floral sprigs,
the stone of pale celadon tone
Length 4⅝ in., 11.8 cm 宋至元 青玉鏤雕雲山高士圖山子

$ 5,000-7,000

185 清十八世紀 青白玉雕螭龍紋如意式洗

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