A PALE CELADON JADE 'HEHE ERXIAN' BOULDER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

naturalistically worked with a jagged mountainscape laden with overhanging pine trees, carved in varying levels of relief of a scene of the 'Hehe erxian' depicted playfully crossing a bridge over a stream, one opening a cloud emitting bag, the other seated holding plantain leaves, the reverse similarly carved with large rocky cliffs and a spotted deer issuing from the crevices of the rocks, the polished stone of an even pale celadon tone with russet highlights, wood stand