Lot Essay
This mountain is carved and reticulated with an immortal holding a ruyi sceptre, surrounded by pine trees, a tortoise and a crane grasping further lingzhi sprays, which are all symbols of longevity. Compare with a similar jade reticulated mountain dated to the Song dynasty, carved with a bearded figure on one side, an attendant accompanied by a deer on the other in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji - 5 - Sui·Tang-Ming, Hebei, 1993, p. 81, nos. 130 (fig. 1) and 131.