QING DYNASTY, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY

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A WHITE JADE CARVING OF A SCHOLAR
QING DYNASTY, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
The figure is carved wearing a cloth hat and flowing draped robes with a tasseled waist band. He is shown standing holding a scroll in his left hand. The stone is of an even white tone with minor grey suffusions.
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high, box

Provenance

The Green Willow Hall Collection, sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 26 May 2007, lot 304

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Lot Essay

Among the jade figural carvings of the mid-Qing period, as well as Buddhist and Daoist figural representations, secular figures were also produced such as elderly men, female figures and scholars as seen in the present lot. A carving of two sages in the Qing Court Collection is illustrated in Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 106; alongside a female figure, no. 102.

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