PROPERTY FROM A SAN FRANCISCO PRIVATE COLLECTOR AN ELEGANTLY INSCRIBED GRAY AND WHITE JADE BOULDERQing dynasty, 18th-19th century Conforming to the outline of a natural pebble, carved to the front a sage followed by a boy attendant holding a parcel over his shoulder, visiting a hermit standing by the cliff, all set within a mountainous landscape with gnarled pines, the surface of an overhanging rocky outcrop finely inscribed with an imperial poem heightened in red and corresponding to the carved scene, the reverse of similar setting, with a sage led by an attendant crossing a bridge above a meandering stream, the matrix of a grayish tone cast with darker and lighter color variations. 4 1/4in (10.8cm) high, 6 5/8in (16.8cm) wide 清 十八至十九世紀 御題詩《翠峰晴疊圖》灰白玉山子 Provenance: Acquired in England during the 1970s Stephen Chase Collection San Francisco, 17 December 2013, sale 21033, lot 8127 來源： 1970年代由英國購入 Stephen Chase舊藏 舊金山邦瀚斯，2013年12月17日，拍品編號8127 The imperial poem on the present example was written by the Qianlong Emperor on a landscape painting by Qian Weicheng (c. 1720-1772), now in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in Gugong Shuhua Tulu (Illustrated Catalog of Painting and Calligraphy in the National Palace Museum), Vol. 26, Taipei, 2013, pp.54-57.