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A WHITE JADE ‘BOY AND CAT’ GROUP A FINE WHITE JADE BOWL

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

The stone is carved in the round to depict a young boy standing The bowl is carved with flaring sides rising to a slightly everted
next to a cat with an adorable expression peering upwards at the rim, supported on a circular ring foot. The material is of a semi-
boy. The figure is further shown with his head turned to one translucent, even white tone with mottling.
side looking at a butterfly on his shoulder, grasping a weathered 4 æ in. (12 cm.) diam.
plantain leaf in his hand that extends over his shoulders and down
his back. The well polished stone is of a greenish-white tone. HK$500,000-700,000 US$65,000-90,000
3 in. (7.5 cm.) high, box

HK$120,000-180,000 US$16,000-23,000 清 白玉盌

PROVENANCE

An American private collection, acquired circa 2010

The combination of a boy and a cat forms the pun maodie, which
conveys the auspicious message of ‘May you live into your seventies
and eighties’. Hence the motif on the current jade carving deliver the
well-intended wish of longevity and good health.

Compare another carving of a boy and cat group dated to the Ming
dynasty in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Jade, Ming Dynasty
– The Complete Collections in the Palace Museum, vol. 6, Beijing, 2011,
pl. 285; and another nearly identical carving sold at Sotheby’s Hong
Kong, 1 December 2016, lot 15.

清十八世紀 白玉雕期壽耄耊把件

來源
美國私人收藏，入藏於 2010 年左右

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