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Auction archive: Lot number 1336

A MASSIVE AND FINELY CARVED 'EIGHT HORSES' SPINACH-GREEN JADE BRUSHPOT...

Estimate
HK$5,500,000 - HK$7,000,000
ca. US$709,263 - US$902,699
Price realised:
HK$6,487,500
ca. US$836,608
Auction archive: Lot number 1336

A MASSIVE AND FINELY CARVED 'EIGHT HORSES' SPINACH-GREEN JADE BRUSHPOT...

Estimate
HK$5,500,000 - HK$7,000,000
ca. US$709,263 - US$902,699
Price realised:
HK$6,487,500
ca. US$836,608
Beschreibung:

A MASSIVE AND FINELY CARVED 'EIGHT HORSES' SPINACH-GREEN JADE BRUSHPOT QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD of particularly large cylindrical form, finely carved in varying depths of relief with eight horses accompanied by their attendants in a vivid rocky landscape, depicting King Mu and an attendant walking with a horse from a pavilion towards a flowing stream, while another horse is bathed in the stream below a splashing waterfall, one being groomed, one being cajoled by an attendant, while another gallops down from a rocky outcrop, further along others contentedly resting and grazing, and another playfully gamboling on its back, all within a wide wooded valley filled with lush vegetation including pine, paulownia, willow and banana, with clouds swirls drifting above, the stone of a deep spinach-green mottled with darker green inclusions height 21.4cm., 8 1/2 in. diameter 23.4cm., 9 1/4 in.

Auction archive: Lot number 1336
Auction:
Datum:
9 Oct 2007
Auction house:
Sotheby's
Hong Kong
Beschreibung:

A MASSIVE AND FINELY CARVED 'EIGHT HORSES' SPINACH-GREEN JADE BRUSHPOT QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD of particularly large cylindrical form, finely carved in varying depths of relief with eight horses accompanied by their attendants in a vivid rocky landscape, depicting King Mu and an attendant walking with a horse from a pavilion towards a flowing stream, while another horse is bathed in the stream below a splashing waterfall, one being groomed, one being cajoled by an attendant, while another gallops down from a rocky outcrop, further along others contentedly resting and grazing, and another playfully gamboling on its back, all within a wide wooded valley filled with lush vegetation including pine, paulownia, willow and banana, with clouds swirls drifting above, the stone of a deep spinach-green mottled with darker green inclusions height 21.4cm., 8 1/2 in. diameter 23.4cm., 9 1/4 in.

Auction archive: Lot number 1336
Auction:
Datum:
9 Oct 2007
Auction house:
Sotheby's
Hong Kong
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