Asian Art - 21st May 2008

Lot 287

** An impressive Chinese pale celadon jade boulder

Estimate £4,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £3800

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Description

** An impressive Chinese pale celadon jade boulder, worked in high relief with two Immortals standing by a cliff face, overlooking a river and surrounded by pagodas, pine trees and rockwork, the reverse minutely carved as a sage seated on an outcrop fanning the smoke of his hearth, an attendant climbs up some steps towards him, raised on a reticulated wood stand, Qianlong or later, 16cm. (2)