Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE CARVING OF A RAFT
QING DYNASTY

Depicting Magu dressed in elegant flowing robes, holding a ruyi sceptre, beside a basket of peonies, a crane and a deer, with another lady paddling the raft through gentle waves, the stone of even pale greenish-white tone, flecked with minor darker inclusions, together with a reticulated wood stand carved as swirling waves, 18.5cm. (2)

Provenance: formerly the collection of the Viceroy of Min-Zhe, who served in the Qing government from 1898-1903.

清 青白玉雕麻姑乘槎
來源：清末閩浙總督（1898-1903年在任）舊藏，據其後人描述，其藏品大多源自慈禧太后、光緒皇帝御賜在家族中一代代流傳至今。