A LARGE AND FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE " LUOHAN " BOULDER CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Carved in high relief on one side with a luohan seated within a deep grotto, with a bundle of scrolls to one side and a recumbent elephant supporting a vase on its back to the other side, all beneath the branches of a gnarled, flowering tree branch, the reverse carved with a waterfall beside pine trees and an elaborate lingzhi sprig, the softly polished stone of even, pale white tone 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) wide Provenance Christie’s, New York, 23 February 1982, lot 657. Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1982. The Irving Collection, no. 395.
A LARGE AND FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE " LUOHAN " BOULDER CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Carved in high relief on one side with a luohan seated within a deep grotto, with a bundle of scrolls to one side and a recumbent elephant supporting a vase on its back to the other side, all beneath the branches of a gnarled, flowering tree branch, the reverse carved with a waterfall beside pine trees and an elaborate lingzhi sprig, the softly polished stone of even, pale white tone 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) wide Provenance Christie’s, New York, 23 February 1982, lot 657. Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1982. The Irving Collection, no. 395.
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