California Asian Art Auction California Asian Art Auction
 Mar. 15, 2014  Mar. 15, 2014

 Lot # 2409 
A MASSIVE CARVED JADEITE BOULDER 'SHANZI'    民國早期 翡翠高浮雕玉山子擺件 底座為後配


  • Dimension: H: 21 3/4 in (55.3 cm) W: 16 3/4 in (42.6 cm)
  • Estimate From: $25000
  • Estimate To: $30000

This massive boulder is of irregular form, deeply carved and pierced in high relief depicting the scene of a old scholar and a child standing beneath a cave on a bridge in the mountain, where a small pavilion is on the other side of bridge. The scholar looks upward on the cranes flying up toward the auspicious clouds. Underneath the scholar, upright trees issuing from the rocks on the mountain and a pathway is carved between two rocks. On the reverse pine trees and bamboo grows from the rocks. Early Republic period.


此翡翠玉雕山子,器型巨大,天然,厚重,四面滿雕工,用料考究,佈局結構合理,雕工細緻,所雕人物,山水,樹木,小橋,樓閣等,均體現了雕刻家的精湛技藝及對美好生活的展望。此翡翠玉雕山子曾經與1978年在哈佛大學博物館展出。由聖地亞哥張先生夫婦提供。