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12 A CELADON AND BEIGE JADE
‘HEHE ERXIAN’ GROUP
㶭 曺 QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY
⋩ 䌱 carved in high relief with one boy standing and the other seated
ᶫġ 晽 on the ground alongside, the standing boy with the right foot Ը๕
İġ positioned atop a rocky outcrop and holding a lotus stem at ŐųŪŦůŵŢŭġœŢųŪŵŪŦŴġĩłŭŢůġʼnŢųŵŮŢůĪ炻䲸䲬炻IJĺĹı⸜
⋩ ⎰ the chest, the stem extending over the right shoulder and Ĵ㚰IJĹ㖍
ℓ Ḵ suspending a large bud and two broad lotus pads at the boy’s ἃ伭ΐ㕗ġĩIJĺijıĮijıIJĹĪġ⍲崓ỗ䈡ġĩIJĺIJĸĮijıIJķĪɀ
ᶾ ẁ sides, the smiling face directed down towards his brother’s, the 㫸暚ằ⃟㓞啷炻䶐嘇Ĵijij
䲨ġġġ ㈲ seated boy clutching a covered box and gazing merrily upward,
ẞ the reverse carved in high relief with a gnarled pine tree, a pair of
small dogs, lingzhi, and a bird, the boys a pale yellowing-celadon
hue transmuting to taupe at the reverse and one side, wood
stand (2)
Height 3¼ in., 8.2 cm
PROVENANCE
Oriental Rarities (Alan Hartman), New York, 18th March 1980.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016)
Irving, no. 322.
$ 40,000-60,000
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