AN EXTREMELY RARE PALE GREEN JADE 'ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER' OPENWORK BOULDER
Qianlong
Of horizontal profile, elaborately carved overall from an elongated irregular boulder in relief and deeply undercut to the front and back to form a pavilion set in a garden scene, depicting a young lady from the 'Romance of the Western Chamber', Xixiang Ji, seated by a small table under of the pavilion looking out from a circular window cut through the wall, inside the corridor in the centre of the pavilion furnished with a rolled bamboo curtain and a corner-leg table displayed with books and a brushpot, the other side of the pavilion carved with a female attendant carrying a qin walking in front of an open balustrade window towards the door of the pavilion, all set on top of a flat rugged rockwork base, box.
24cm (9 1/2in) wide. (2).