A CREAMY WHITE SOAPSTONE MOUNTAIN

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22.03.2024 09:00UTC -04:00
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Lot 1239 | A CREAMY WHITE SOAPSTONE MOUNTAIN
A CREAMY WHITE SOAPSTONE MOUNTAIN

18TH-19TH CENTURY

The front is incised with two poems, one referring to plum blossoms and the other to bamboo. A third poem by Li Shangyin (AD 812-c. 858) is inscribed on the reverse.

5 1⁄8 in. (13 cm.) wide, cloth box





Provenance

Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 10 February 1991.



Literature

Nicole De Bisscop, Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi Collection, Brussels, 1995, p. 101, no. 57.



Exhibited

Brussels, Kredietbank Gallery, Chinese Jade and Scroll Paintings from the Dongxi Collection, 25 October-17 December 1995; Luxembourg, Kredietbank Luxembourg, 1 February-13 April 1996.
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