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A RARE WHITE JADE CARVING
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The columnar-shaped boulder is slightly arched in form, finely carved in high relief and openwork on one side to depict pine trees growing in a rocky mountain landscape, detailed with a figure standing on an overhanging cliff looking down at his companion below holding a basket in one hand, the reverse side is slightly concave, carved with two tall bamboo trunks growing from one corner, against a background of wavy horizontal divisions, imitating the interior of a bamboo trunk, the sides with evenly spaced bamboo nodules, the stone with a slight celadon tone
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.), stand
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The columnar-shaped boulder is slightly arched in form, finely carved in high relief and openwork on one side to depict pine trees growing in a rocky mountain landscape, detailed with a figure standing on an overhanging cliff looking down at his companion below holding a basket in one hand, the reverse side is slightly concave, carved with two tall bamboo trunks growing from one corner, against a background of wavy horizontal divisions, imitating the interior of a bamboo trunk, the sides with evenly spaced bamboo nodules, the stone with a slight celadon tone
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.), stand
Provenance
Walter Stein, New York
Sotheby's New York, 26 February 1982, lot 475
Sotheby's New York, 26 February 1982, lot 475
Literature
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no.132
Exhibited
Christie's New York, March 13-26, 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004