清十八世紀 白玉松下高士山子

carved as an upright mountainous landscape depicting Shoulao walking on a rocky pathway, holding his staff in his left hand and a peach in his right, accompanied by two attendants, one holding a peach in front of Shuolao and one behind him with a fruiting peach branch, below a small pavilion nestled in the mountain, the jagged cliffs and pathways arboured with blossoming pine and wutong trees, all beneath ruyi-shaped cloud swirls, the reverse similarly detailed with a crane and a recumbent deer near wutong blossoms emerging from jagged cliffs, the base further detailed with uneven rockwork, the stone of a semi-translucent pale celadon-green tone with russet inclusions accenting the rocks

The overall condition is quite good. There are some minor nicks to the wutong blossoms and the jagged rockwork. The actual colour is quite similar to that of the catalogue photo.
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For another jade mountain boulder with similar composition in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, see one included in the Museum's exhibition The Refined Taste of the Emperor. Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jade of the Ch’ing Court, 1997, cat. no. 42. Shoulao and his principle acolyte are similarly depicted on a rocky crevace, with the natural contours of the landscape similarly rendered utilising the natural flaws of the jade boulder. See also an example included in the exhibition Realm of the Immortals: Daoism in the Arts of China, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1988, cat. no. 21.