Chinese jade boulder carved with a landscape

An image of Ornament/Boulder. Rich dark translucent green jade boulder carved with an old man with a stick and a boy with a branch of peach fruit in a landscape where peach and pine trees grow and a pavilion in the distance. The pine, peach and old man all represent longevity. The whole scene, together with a boy with a branch of peach in his hand can be interpreted as searching for immortality. The design may have been inspired by a woodblock print. Jade/nephrite, height 12.2 cm, length 15.8 cm, 1700-1800. Chinese.

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Ornament/Boulder. Rich dark translucent green jade boulder carved with an old man with a stick and a boy with a branch of peach fruit in a landscape where peach and pine trees grow and a pavilion in the distance. The pine, peach and old man all represent longevity. The whole scene, together with a boy with a branch of peach in his hand can be interpreted as searching for immortality. The design may have been inspired by a woodblock print. Jade/nephrite, height 12.2 cm, length 15.8 cm, 1700-1800. Chinese.

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Accession Number: O.240-1936
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/32.0
Focal length: 135
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 810 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 534.04kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 32/1
Captured: 2007:03:16 19:59:57

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18th Century boulders carved Chinese dark green Fitz_AA green jade landscape man nephrite old man pavilion peach tree

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