QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A CARVED WHITE JADE ‘SCHOLAR IN LANDSCAPE’ BRUSH POT
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The brush pot is carved in varying reliefs with a continuous scene depicting a scholar reclining against a pine tree, approached by an attendant walking across a bridge towered by jagged mountains and a pavilion on top. The white stone has a pale greenish tinge with some russet inclusions.
4 7⁄8 in. (12.3 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Spink & Son, London, by repute

Exhibited

Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Jade Carving, Hong Kong, 1983, catalogue p. 284, no. 264

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Lot Essay

The brush pot belongs to a group of ‘pictorial style’ jade carvings which have similar visual effect as paintings. See a Qing dynasty white jade brush pot in the Palace Museum, Beijing, depicting an scholar sitting in a pavilion, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995 , no.167; a Qianlong period spinach-green jade brush pot depicting the seven sages of bamboo grove, also in the Palace Museum Beijing, ibid, no. 170.

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