Page 48 - 2019 September 10th Sotheby's Important Chinese Art Jades, Met Museum Irving Collection NYC

13 ⋩ 曺 A CELADON AND RUSSET
ᶫġ 䌱
İġ 晽 JADE FIGURE OF A HEAVENLY
⋩ 㱛 HORSE
ℓ ⚾
ᶾ 㳃 17TH / EARLY 18TH CENTURY
䲨 㚠 carved in openwork with a vivacious heavenly horse galloping
⇅ġġġ 㒢 across roiling waves, the forelegs extending forward in tandem,
ẞ the hind legs pushing energetically o# the water’s surface, the
tail sweeping back against peels of splashing water, the body
articulated in low relief with wings rising along its sides, Þ ne
scales on the skin, and wisps of qi at the shoulders and hips, a
large beribboned scroll tied to the back, the undulating watery
ground incised with ß owing lines and punctuated with plumes of
sea spray leaping from the surface and generating swirls of mist,
the stone a whitish-celadon tone with icy inclusions and russet
passages, wood stand (2)

Height 5⅜ in., 13.7 cm

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PROVENANCE
Spink & Son, London, 25th May 1983. ŔűŪůŬġħġŔŰů炻ΐ㔎炻IJĺĹĴ⸜Ķ㚰ijĶ㖍
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) ἃ伭ΐ㕗ġĩIJĺijıĮijıIJĹĪġ⍲崓ỗ䈡ġĩIJĺIJĸĮijıIJķĪɀ
Irving, no. 257. 㫸暚ằ⃟㓞啷炻䶐嘇ijĶĸ
$ 20,000-30,000

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