A rare celadon and russet jade 'scholar' mountain, Song - Yuan dynasty | 宋至元 青玉鏤雕雲山高士圖山子
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March 17, 08:20 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A rare celadon and russet jade 'scholar' mountain
Song - Yuan dynasty
宋至元 青玉鏤雕雲山高士圖山子
skillfully rendered following the natural form of the boulder, the sides intricately carved in openwork with a scholar standing in a long flowing robe and donning a dongpojin (Dongpo hat), positioned between a mythical tortoise emitting vapor and a deer grasping a lingzhi sprig, accompanied by an attendant holding a large leaf, all set within a dense landscape of pierced rockwork, gnarled trees and scrolling clouds, the softly polished stone of an even color with russet skin to the top
Height 5 ⅛ in., 13 cm
The present lot belongs to a small group of similarly reticulated and carved jade mountains attributed to the Song to Yuan dynasties. Compare a jade mountain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, carved with a very similar scholar scene, attributed to the Southern Song - Yuan dynasty, exhibited in Dynastic Renaissance Art and Culture of the Southern Song Antiquities, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2010, cat. no. III-45. See also a related jade mountain from the Qing Court Collection, now in the Palace Museum, Beijing, attributed to the Song dynasty, published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Jadeware (II), Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 94, together with a Liao/Jin example, pl. 99.
For examples sold at auction, see a jade mountain formerly in the collection of C. Philip Cardeiro, attributed to the Jin/Yuan dynasty, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27th May 2014, lot 3246; another attributed to the Liao-Yuan dynasty, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29th November 2016, lot 3440; and a third from the collection of Baroness Marie-Louise von Callenberg, attributed to the Yuan dynasty, sold at Christie's Paris, 18th December 2012, lot 10.