18TH-19TH CENTURY

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A Fine White Jade Brushpot
18th-19th century
Of cylindrical form, carved and pierced in high relief with some areas of openwork depicting a continuous scene of a scholar and two attendants approaching a pavilion within a dramatic mountain landscape beneath large overhanging trees and clouds, with two boys on the reverse, one holding a peach branch, the other holding a ruyi scepter, the stone of white color with fine dark grey speckling and touches of russet coloring
5 3/8in. (13.7cm.) high

Provenance

Christie's New York, 22 September 1995, lot 368.

Lot Essay

A related pierced brushpot in spinach green jade was included in the exhibition, Chinese Jade throughout the Ages, London, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1975, no. 415. See, also, a white jade brushpot illustrated in The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictoral Jades of the Ch'ing Court, Taipei, National Palace Museum, 1977, pl. 60.

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