This powerful jade sculpture captures the legendary Tang dynasty poet Li Bai (also known as Li Taibai, 李太白), reclining drunkenly on a sheer cliff edge under a full moon. A bottle rests by his side, and his gaze is lost in the vast sky — as if composing immortal lines between heaven and earth.
Li Bai was known as the "Immortal of Poetry" (诗仙), celebrated not only for his lyrical brilliance but for his love of wine, mountains, and moonlit musings. Legends say he once tried to embrace the moon’s reflection in a drunken haze and drowned in a river. Here, artist Chen Panyu evokes that transcendental moment — the poet, half-mortal and half-myth, dissolving into nature’s embrace.
The jade’s natural black-green contrast echoes the tension between physical weight and poetic flight. The figure melts into the mountain itself, blurring the line between man and landscape — a tribute to the Daoist ideal of unity between humanity and nature.
Chen Pan, from Zhenping County, Nanyang City, Henan Province.
He is a Henan Provincial Jade Carving Art Master, a Young Carving Art Master, the Art Director of Shanhai Jade Carving Art Museum, and the General Manager of Nanyang Meiyu Shijie Jade Culture Communication Co., Ltd.
Design and Production by: Chen Pan, Jiang Jing, Peng Yingying
Estimated price for this pair by Chen Pan AUD$5,300 (RMB￥25,000)
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