Scholar’s Happiness

Master of the Rocks School, 1730-1860
Height: 6.27 cm
Mouth/lip: .49/1.67 cm
Stopper: coral; gilt-bronze collar

Provenance:
Stallion Hill Auction, Connecticut, 24 February 2013, lot 411
Hugh Moss (HK ) Ltd.

 

Yellowish-green nephrite of pebble material with variegated brown skin; with a flat lip and recessed flat oval foot surrounded by a protruding, flat oval footrim; carved with a continuous scene of a scholar with a walking staff standing beneath a rocky promontory with a pine tree and clouds gazing out at a bat emerging from clouds.

Alexander Whittaker