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A FINE WHITE JADE MOUNTAIN BOULDER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Finely and crisply carved to one side with five young boys in a walled garden setting playing the drum, ridding a hobby horse, carrying a musical chime, a fish-shaped lantern and a stalk of millet before elaborately worked pierced and perforated rockwork and wutong and pine trees continued to the reverse side, the irregular stone of even pale greyish-white tone, the natural contours of the boulder russet enhanced
6 3/4 in. (17 cm.) wide
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Finely and crisply carved to one side with five young boys in a walled garden setting playing the drum, ridding a hobby horse, carrying a musical chime, a fish-shaped lantern and a stalk of millet before elaborately worked pierced and perforated rockwork and wutong and pine trees continued to the reverse side, the irregular stone of even pale greyish-white tone, the natural contours of the boulder russet enhanced
6 3/4 in. (17 cm.) wide
Provenance
By repute, a French military family