A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE 'LIU HAI' MOUNTAIN EARLY QING DYNASTY |

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 HKD

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Description

7.4 cm, 2 7/8 in.

worked in the round as Liu Hai kneeling on a promontory within a rocky grotto beneath a gnarled pine tree and above a three-legged toad and a gushing stream with crashing waters, the immortal rendered dressed in loose robes, the underside of the boulder further detailed with a finely incised whirlpool, the stone of a celadon colour with attractive russet patches

Provenance

Acquired in Hong Kong in 1964.

Literature

Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 201.