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(US$35,000-40,000)
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AN IMPERIAL PALE CELADON JADE INSCRIBED BOULDER
DATED QIANLONG YI SI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1785 AND OF THE PERIOD
The even pale celadon stone finely carved to the front with two scholars on ledges flanking a river followed by two attendants making their way to a pavilion nestled by pine trees beneath mountain peaks, with an incised and gilt poem to one rock face, the reverse with a pair of deer before a rocky grotto
9 in. (23 cm.) long, stand
DATED QIANLONG YI SI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1785 AND OF THE PERIOD
The even pale celadon stone finely carved to the front with two scholars on ledges flanking a river followed by two attendants making their way to a pavilion nestled by pine trees beneath mountain peaks, with an incised and gilt poem to one rock face, the reverse with a pair of deer before a rocky grotto
9 in. (23 cm.) long, stand