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A CARVED BURLWOOD FIGURE OF A CRANE AND A
STAND
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The figure is carved from a single piece of burlwood, modelled as a standing
crane with its long neck turned to one side and its head raised. Standing on a
separate flat, shaped pierced stand.
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high
HK$60,000-80,00 US$7,800-10,000
Such ‘natural’, partially worked, sculptures of animals were appreciated by scholars
and artists as curios for their natural resemblance to other forms in nature. Compare
with a root wood figure of goose, dated probably Qing dynasty, illustrated in Arts from
the Scholar’s Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, p. 57, no. 17, and three other examples dated to
17th and 18th century, illustrated in Wood from the Scholar’s Table, Hong Kong, 1984,
p. 161, nos. 105 and 106.
清 癭木雕鶴立像及座
可參考一件定年可能為清代之楠木鵝，載於《文玩萃珍》，
香港，1986年，頁57，編號17。另可參考三件定年
分別為十七及十八世紀之癭木雕鴨、雕鵝，
載於《Wood from the Scholar’s Table》，
香港，1984年，頁161，編號105及106。
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