Property from Various Owners
A fine pair of spinach jade landscape plaques
Republic period
Each thinly sectioned rectangular plaque carved with mirror images of a bearded scholar seated on a river bank, looking toward a bridge that connects to his rural retreat fronting towering mountains on the opposite bank, the reverse side depicting a boatman in the foreground of a water course surrounded by rural huts and further mountain peaks; the matrix mottled from light to dark leaf green with some pin-point black inclusions; each plaque fitting into a pieced wood display stand reticulated with a stylized peony flower pattern.
10 x 8 1/8in (25.5 x 20.5cm) dimensions of plaques
15in (38cm) height including wood stand
Each thinly sectioned rectangular plaque carved with mirror images of a bearded scholar seated on a river bank, looking toward a bridge that connects to his rural retreat fronting towering mountains on the opposite bank, the reverse side depicting a boatman in the foreground of a water course surrounded by rural huts and further mountain peaks; the matrix mottled from light to dark leaf green with some pin-point black inclusions; each plaque fitting into a pieced wood display stand reticulated with a stylized peony flower pattern.
10 x 8 1/8in (25.5 x 20.5cm) dimensions of plaques
15in (38cm) height including wood stand
Sold for
US$ 116,500
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
by repute, purchased from Yamanaka & Company before World War II
Category: Asian Art
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