Beschreibung:

A FINELY CARVED LARGE SPINACH-GREEN JADE 'IMMORTALS' BRUSHPOT QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD the cylindrical body set over five ruyi-form feet, the sides deftly carved in high relief with nine immortals in a mountain retreat surrounded by rocky peaks, waterfalls, pines, and other vegetation, one side with six of the men gathered on a balustraded terrace, each with a long beard, voluminous robe, and a sprig of lingzhi, the terrace with a double-roof pavilion at one side and branching into two balustraded paths at the opposite side, one path zigzagging up the mountain to distant pavilion, the other winding behind a diagonal ridge of rockwork then crossing over a cascading waterfall and turning uphill to a temple with a large tripod censer at the entryway, three immortals gathered in front of the temple, two of them holding lingzhi and the third holding a scroll, a craggy ridge rising at a diagonal alongside the temple, on the opposite side of the ridge two deer resting amidst lingzhi beneath a willow and a wutong tree, the flat base centered with a slightly recessed circle, the stone a deep spinach-green color variegated with lighter green passages Height 6 5/8 in., 16.9 cm Read Condition Report Read Condition Report Register or Log-in to view condition report Or Saleroom Notice Provenance Collection of Alfred Morrison (1821-97), Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire, no. 233. Christie's London, 9th July 1980, lot 105. Donald J. Wineman, New York, 24th August 1981, no. 85. Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 352.