QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)

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A SUPERBLY CARVED WHITE JADE ‘RED CLIFF’ BOULDER
QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)
The irregularly-shaped boulder is carved on the front with the scene from the poem 'The Red Cliff', in which the Song-dynasty poet Su Shi is depicted in a raft with his two companions looking out at vast rocky cliffs studded with pine trees at different levels, the details of the wispy clouds and waves represented by finely incised lines; the reverse side with a continuous landscape comprising a pavilion on jagged mountains.
6 3⁄4 in. (17.1 cm.) wide, hardwood stand, box

Provenance

Sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 26 May 2007, lot 238

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Lot Essay

Compare the carving to a pair of Qianlong period jade table screens also depicting ‘Red Cliffs’ in the Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing Court, Taipei, 1997, no. 63.

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