Fine Chinese Works of Art, Paintings & Calligraphy - 22nd May 2018

Lot 147

A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE 'RAFT GROUP' CARVING QIANLONG 1736-95 Carved as the Immortal Magu...

Estimate £12,000 - £18,000 | Hammer £12000

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Description

A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE 'RAFT GROUP' CARVING QIANLONG 1736-95 Carved as the Immortal Magu holding a peach and with a young boy clutching a lingzhi oar in a log raft, together with a wood stand carved with rolling waves, 17cm. (2) Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2nd May 1991 lot 324 and Sotheby's Hong Kong 27th April 2003 lot 101. Cf. M Knight, H Lee and T Bartholomew, Later Chinese Jades from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, p.288, nos.321 and 322, and The Woolf Collection of Chinese Jade, p.263, no.133, for comparable carvings of Immortals on rafts.