Lot description
AN IMPERIALLY-INSCRIBED WHITE AND RUSSET JADE ‘BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION’ BOULDER First half of the 18th century, two-character seal mark Chun He The attractive even-toned white stone retaining its characteristic russet skin and crisply carved in various relief with one boy proferring a box supporting a bat to another boy floating on a thick cloud and holding aloft a double gourd issuing swirling smoke amidst further bats in flight, the boys divided by a waterfall and stream and surrounded by pine, wutong and rocks, the reverse with a pine tree issuing from craggy rocks carved with an Imperial inscription, box. 11.3cm (4½in) wide (2).
