18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A GREENISH-WHITE JADE RECTANGULAR TABLE SCREEN
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of irregular thickness, carved in high relief on one side with the poet Lin Bu and his attendant standing in front of a pavilion as they release a crane from a cage set before them, the crane seen in flight above, the reverse painted in gilding with a figure in a boat navigating a river below a towering rocky cliff, the stone with some opaque white inclusions and small areas of added russet color
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) high, wood stand

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Lot Essay

Lin Bu was a poet and famous recluse, who claimed that he considered plum trees his wife and pet cranes his children, and therefore never married. He was a lifelong resident of Hangzhou, and spent 20 years living on Solitary Mountain, an island in Hangzhou's West Lake. Every morning he would release the cranes from their cages, and they would return at night.

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