California Asian Art Auction California Asian Art Auction
 June 13, 2015  June 13, 2015

 Lot # 5902 
A HORIZONTAL WHITE JADE CARVING    白玉雕赤壁賦山子


  • Dimension: Length without stand: 9 5/8 in (24.5 cm)
  • Estimate From: $2500
  • Estimate To: $3500

Horizontally worked, the white jade panel is carved to the front with the Chi-bi scene, with a boat travelling through river streams, flanked with the rocky cliff above and reed at bottom, the water detailed with incised lines. Both sides carved with pine issuing from the rock. The back carved with an elderly scholar holding a staff on right hand and a young attendant standing adjacent to wutong and pine, with a gilt-painted inscribed imperial poem on the rock to the right. Accompanied with a carved hardwood stand.