18TH CENTURY

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A FINE RELIEF-CARVED CELADON JADE BOULDER
18th century
The large pebble-shaped stone carved with the figure of Laozi with his water buffalo and attendant meeting a scholar and attendant beside pine trees at a gate of the Great Wall, all set among overhanging rocks, the reverse with pine branches and lingzhi issuing from rockwork, the stone of a smooth pale celadon tone with minor white inclusions and extensively covered with a polished russet skin
8in. (20cm.) high

Lot Essay

See the similar carved jade boulder from the British Rail Pension Fund, sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 97. See also the fine pebble-shaped upright boulder group carved with figures and pine in a rocky landscape, from the Helen and Peter Collection, exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Jade Carvings, 1983, Catalogue, no.237, which is also dated to the 18th Century.

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