QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE BOULDER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Well carved, one side with a scholar accompanied by two attendants ascending a vertiginous mountainous pass lined with pine trees towards a pagoda perched on a promontory, the reverse with a deer and a crane in flight in a similar landscape setting, the stone of an even milky white tone with small areas of russet inclusions well-incoporated into the carving
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high, wood stand, box

Provenance

Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 May 2000, lot 668

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Lot Essay

Robert Kleiner discusses the Chinese literati fascination with carved jade boulders in Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 160, suggesting that 'these represented miniature idealised landscapes into which the scholar himself could retreat without having to leave his study and they complement the miniature gardens and trees cultivated by most scholars.'

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