A LAPIS LAZULI BOULDER QING DYNASTY, 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Estimate

12,000 - 15,000 USD

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Description

lapis lazuli

carved in relief on both sides with a mountainous landscape, a scholar and attendant standing in the foreground beneath a knotted pine and a pavilion on a high cliff in the distance, the lower portion with micaceous gold flecks carved to form waves and rocky shores

Catalogue Note

Compare a similar example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Li Jiufang, ed,. Zhongguo meishu fenlei quanji zhongguo yuqi quanji 6 qing, [Compendium of Chinese Jade, vol. 6], Hebei, 1997, pls 262 and 263.