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A WHITE JADE BOWL A WHITE JADE 'ELEPHANT AND BOY'
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY GROUP
The bowl is carved with a gently flaring rim, supported on a short QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
foot. The semi-translucent stone is of an even white tone. The stone is carved in the round as an elephant standing
3ƒ in. (9 cm.) diam., box, wood stand foursquare, bridled and saddled with a tasselled blanket decorated
HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-77,000 with cloud scrolls above waves. A young boy is mounted onto the
elephant’s back supporting a lingzhi over his shoulder.
PROVENANCE 4¡ in. (11 cm.) wide
An English private collection
A French private collection HK$550,000-650,000 US$71,000-83,000
EXHIBITED:
S. Marchant & Son, London, 85th Anniversary Exhibition of Chinese ᪺ڊՌˡ☹ Ⅾἕ⒴ಡ㫢ㆀᇱͭ
Jades from Tang to Qing, 2010, Catalogue no. 130, pp. 184-5.
A similar bowl of slightly larger size with a Qianlong mark was included
in the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition Chinese Jade Throughout
the Ages, 1 May to 22 June 1975, illustrated in Transactions of the
Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 40, 1973-1975, no. 436, p. 131.

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