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A RARE GREYISH JADE CARVING OF A MYTHICAL BEAST AND A RARE PALE GREEN JADE CARVING OF A MYTHICAL BEAST
YOUNG Ming Dynasty
16th century Finely carved with a muscular body resting on its haunches picked
The oval pebble finely carved and pierced as a recumbent mythical out with archaistic motifs, the facial features well defined with bulging
beast with the beak of a bird clasping a sprig of lingzhi extending over eyes and flaring nostrils above a curled beard and below small pointed
its curled back with feline body and tail, a smaller mythical animal ears and a central horn at the back of the head, with a knobbly spine
clambering on the larger’s head, the stone of beige tone with dark- sweeping back to a long bushy tail curling up to its chest, the stone of
brownish inclusions. very pale green tone with icy and beige inclusions.
6.3cm (2 1/2in) long. 7cm (2 6/8in) long.

£2,500 - 3,500 £1,500 - 2,000
CNY23,000 - 32,000 CNY14,000 - 18,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十六世紀 玉雕瑞獸銜靈 明 青白玉雕瑞獸擺件

See a related but smaller white and brown jade figure of a recumbent See a related jade carving of a mythical beast, Yuan/Ming dynasty,
mythical beast, Ming/early Qing dynasty, which was sold at Christie’s in the Cleveland Museum of Art, illustrated in Hai-wai Yi-chen:
London, 19 March 2015, lot 620; and another jade carving of a Chinese art in overseas collections, Jade II, Taipei, 1991, no.186; see
mythical beast, 16th century, formerly in the collection of Lord and also another example in the Art Institute of Chicago, illustrated by
Lady Cunliffe, which was sold at Sotheby’s London, 16 May 2007, J.Hartman-Goldsmith, Chinese Jade, London, 1986, no.16.
lot 234.
See a similar green and russet jade carving of a mythical beast, Ming
dynasty, which was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014,
lot 3568.

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