Page 39 - 2020 Sept 22 Junkunc_ Chinese Jade Carvings _ Sotheby's NYC Asia Week

9/2/2020 Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings | Sotheby's

Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:30 AM EDT

Lot 220

A LARGE CELADON JADE MOUNTAIN, QING DYNASTY, EARLY 18TH CENTUR Y
Estimate: 60,000 - 80,000 USD

A LARGE CELADON JADE MOUNTAIN
QING DYNASTY, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
清十八世紀初 青玉雕靈山聚瑞圖山子

crisply carved to one side with pairs of deer, cranes and bats amidst a landscape detailed with an overhanging gnarled pine
tree, bamboo shoots, lingzhi and jagged cliffs, the other side with two deer on a rocky path with a gnarled pine tree, the softly
polished stone of a pale green tone with some natural fissures

Height 10⅛ in., 25.5 cm

Provenance
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Catalogue Note
Jade boulder carvings of various shapes depicting deer in rocky mountainscapes include a smaller white jade version sold at
Christie’s New York, 30th March 2005, lot 129; and a pale green jade example sold at Christie’s London, 10th December 1990, lot
215. See also a smaller boulder fashioned with a scholar and attendant on the front and the reverse with two deer in a landscape,

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/junkunc-chinese-jade-carvings?locale=en 39/122