A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE BOULDER

Price realised HKD 984,000
Estimate
HKD 400,000 – HKD 600,000
Closed: 28 Nov 2006
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A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE BOULDER

Price realised HKD 984,000
Closed: 28 Nov 2006
Price realised HKD 984,000
Closed: 28 Nov 2006
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A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE BOULDER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Finely carved in high relief and in openwork, with a small figure standing beneath a towering cliff with layered rockwork, leaning on a staff and looking up at a branch growing precariously from a crag, surrounded by pine and maple trees highlighted in russet and grey tones, the reverse of the rocky boulder with two cranes beside a waterfall
6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm.) high, stand
Provenance
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25 November 1987, lot 403
Literature
P. Desautels, The Jade Kingdom, New York, 1986, pl. 7
'A Collection of Chinese Carved Jade', Lapidary Journal, June 1979, cover illustration
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 131
Exhibited
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1977, Chinese Jade from Southern California Collections, Catalogue no. 34
Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004

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