THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
AN INSCRIBED PALE CELADON JADE BOULDER

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AN INSCRIBED PALE CELADON JADE BOULDER
kangxi

Carved with two gentlemen conversing on a precipitous mountain path leading to a distant pavilion, between a waterfall and a flowering prunus tree and amid overhanging pine, willow and sterculia branches, all below an incised and five-line poem, the reverse with a deer looking up at a crane in flight gilded beside a waterfall, a pine and a nandina tree, the mottled stone with some well-used paler and russet inclusions, extremity chips and polished
9½in. (24cm.) high
Provenance
The Summer Palace, Beijing, by family tradition since the 19th Century

Lot Essay

The poem may be translated as: An imperial inscription - gazing at plum trees and searching for suitable words. Plum trees have a divine air, and cranes possess the qualities of the Way; family members resemble each other. I too once visited the solitary hill, and the flowing waters and floating clouds recalled former times

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