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Stylistically the present lot draws some influence from the ⎊ℱ㐏卿㫐㲬㫌႙⛁㵲ǯՀ㲬⏟٤⩧⯂ǯӬ㲬Ӳ⫎ᝢᙻ㕇Ӵ卿ႚ
Mughal jades which entered the Qing court in considerable ߿⫎ᇤᐡ卿㧩ཫᇌᆜशႚᇌ⫎卿␪␓㧶૤卿ᚮ㲛श഍ǯӬ㲬ᇌ⫎
numbers during Emperor Qianlong’s reign. These jades were ⯂஠卿߿㓯㓀ᙻऱְ⫫ӳ卿ف㲛ǯ㫐㲬␓␩ம㧏ူ༾⒢ǯᆨ㎜⊂
so admired by the emperor that he ordered Chinese jade
lapidaries to create copies of these foreign jades and as well to ࡚㙑⏻卿㲬㶓Ǯ㲬ཫـ㧩㖔ႛ卿↱⡿㧩㶓⤇卿ߴ⊺⡿⮏ǯ
produce Chinese objects in the Mughal style.
Գ㪏ᛞឆ卿ᙲ⋌஠ᙹ໶ऴ⯝㛑ᚉ㲛㯅श᳖໶㙊㏐Իഌ㞔⎏֗ᙱ
It is also very rare to find a pair of horses carved in jade, as ⼵㰍ᡟℱ଍卿⋁ᛞ♑ἃǸ⌆㛢ᙱீǹℱ଍ǯԳ㪏ཌ᫉ᝳᇈ㵶⎏
most examples only feature single animals. Compare with ㉮܎卿ձங㉼ᙔԋ㊯厍Ǹ∛㮙ᚲྒྷ卿㥝۔ࣇᄟǹ卿Ǹ㇛ᚲℯ⊄
two other pairs of horses, one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, ℱ卿Ⱞࢎ߅⌆㛢ǹ卿ࣽ㍵ݯ↱╖⠢⧻厍Ǹ⶟➜㇦㞒ྉ卿߉ᙫ᳾
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum, Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 89; Ὅ㒝ǹ卿Ǹ⡿ݣᬝ㶂↚卿᳾Ὅᙫ㧛⌆ǹ卿Ǹ⠢㦔ទ㷁႙ǹǯձ
and the other, inscribed with a Qianlong seal mark, sold at ཌᶕዪ⎏ᘘ⻦৅卿㐋㉼ǮהᙔǮഌ࠼㍵㐃卿Ԇ࠼ս֎㙁ǯ
Christie’s Hong Kong, 20 March 1990, lot 917, and again at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 April 1996, lot 9.
The composition of the present pair of horses with one horse
grooming the other is rendered in an exceptionally naturalistic
manner and appears to be unique.

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