THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A SMALL PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE GROTTO
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A SMALL PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE GROTTO
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED MARK IN A LINE, QING DYNASTY
Carved as a luohan with short beard and emaciated chest seated on the rocky ledge at the entrance to a grotto in the rockface of a mountainside, the reverse also carved as a craggy rockface, with plants issuing from the crevices, with a lengthy inscription later inscribed on the front, the apochryphal reign mark preceded by the character hu (tiger) incised on the base, inscription and mark gilded, the softly polished stone with opaque buff and brown mottling
7in. (17.7cm.) high, box
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER INCISED MARK IN A LINE, QING DYNASTY
Carved as a luohan with short beard and emaciated chest seated on the rocky ledge at the entrance to a grotto in the rockface of a mountainside, the reverse also carved as a craggy rockface, with plants issuing from the crevices, with a lengthy inscription later inscribed on the front, the apochryphal reign mark preceded by the character hu (tiger) incised on the base, inscription and mark gilded, the softly polished stone with opaque buff and brown mottling
7in. (17.7cm.) high, box