A PALE GREEN JADE MOUNTAIN QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

carved in high relief and openwork, the mountainous landscape composed of jagged rock faces, a waterfall and sparsely growing pine trees and prunus, with a scholar traversing a rocky outcrop towards a woodcutter carrying a wrapped qin and standing by the entrance to a windswept cave, a sampan moored in waters below, the stone of a pale celadon-green color with faint russet inclusions, wood stand (2)

Texas private collection. 

In good condition, The base with a 1.3 cm aperture, presumably for fixing to the stand, with small associated chips. Several small minute chips to extremities of the carving, including to the tip of the pine tree branch, a 0.3 cm chip to the prunus tree branch and several small chips to the prunus petals. The stone with several natural russet and opaque white fissures and inclusions. The stone of a slightly greener color than as seen in the catalog image. The wood stand re-glued to its base.
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