Asian Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Online-Only Auction, 6 - 13 May 2019
Asian Works of Art
Lot Estimate
ZAR 12 000 - 15 000
About this Item
A Chinese celadon jade carved boulder, late Qing Dynasty
of irregular profile, the front carved with Lohan seated on a lotus throne in a grotto beneath pines, a mythical beast growling at his side, the reverse inscribed ’Jie xiang zhuang yan tu', and cyclical year for 1865, viewed by a figure from above with a double-gourd vase, the foreground with a bat, the stone of mottled green and brown tones with white inclusions, 13,8cm high