A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE 'SCHOLAR AND MONKEY' GROUP
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A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE 'SCHOLAR AND MONKEY' GROUP

19TH CENTURY

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A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE 'SCHOLAR AND MONKEY' GROUP
19TH CENTURY
The group is carved in the round as a scholar stroking his beard while being observed by both a monkey peering around the side of a bamboo chair beside him and a bird perched on an openwork branch of a prunus tree that grows from the rocks that form the reverse. The semi-translucent stone is of pale greenish-white color.
3 ¼ in. (8.3 cm.) long

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