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23     A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE
                         CARVING OF A CAMEL

                 Ⓒ 䌱     TANG - MING DYNASTY
                 军 晽     recumbent with the legs tucked close to the body, the
                 㖶ġġġ 榙  pronounced ribs showing between the bent legs, two small
                     榅   humps rising along the spine, the neck resting against the
                     ㈲   shoulders and the head slightly bowed with the eyes open, the
                     ẞ   lips sealed and the ears relaxed, the fur Þ nely incised at the
                         forehead and hump, the stone a translucent pale green speckled
                         on the surface with yellow-russet skin, pierced twice at the legs,
                         wood stand (2)

                         Length 2¼ in., 5.5 cm


                         PROVENANCE
                         Alice Boney, New York, 17th March 1980.
                         Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016)
                         Irving, no. 104.
                         $ 20,000-30,000
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