清十八世紀 白玉浮雕「蒼松羅漢」圖長方插屏 連後配碧玉座

of rectangular form, the smoothly polished stone of pale celadon-white colour mottled with occasional icy inclusions and a few russet streaks, deftly and deeply carved in varied relief, one side with Bodhidharma fasting in a landscape retreat, the tonsured immortal cloaked in a loose robe partly falling open revealing its bare torso, seated below a lofty wutong tree clutching his gnarled staff with both hands while contemplating a streaming river and jagged hills in the distance, the reverse decorated with a pine tree growing among rocks beside a clear torrent, set on a later-carved spinach jade stand supported on scrolling feet and pierced with a quatrefoil apron

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The upper right corner of the plaque is cantered and the lower right corner slightly polished down. There are some milky inculsions in the stone and a few scattered black specks. The surface is slightly pitted in areas. Otherwise the plaque is in good condition and the carving of good quality. The jade stand is likely to be associated and in good condition.
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A screen and stand of closely related form, but the screen carved with a flowering prunus tree emerging from a rocky crevice on one side and inscribed with an imperial poem on the other, entitled Meihua ('Prunus Flowers'), was sold in these rooms, 30^th April 1991, lot 315, and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 29^th May 2007, lot 1385. Compare a screen depicting a landscape and an imperial poem on the reverse mounted on a spinach-green jade stand with elaborate archaistic motifs, from the collection of Warren E. Cox, published in Charles Stanley Nott, A Catalogue of Rare Chinese Jade Carvings, Palm Beach, 1940, cat. no. 48, sold in our New York rooms, 19^th March 2007, lot 45.