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A WHITE JADE ‘DRAGON-FISH AND BOY’ GROUP
18TH CENTURY
The group is carved as a boy seated astride a dragon-fsh holding the dragon’s horn in one hand and a
fower stem in the other while a three-legged toad leaps from the cresting waves that form the base. The
stone of creamy white tone has an area of opaque russet inclusions on one side.
5 in. (12.7 cm.) long
$50,000-70,000

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 8 April 1988, lot 178.
Important Chinese Jades from the Personal Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman; Christie’s Hong
Kong, 28 November 2006, lot 1413.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
EXHIBITED
New York, Christie’s, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simon Hartman, 13-26 March 2001.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, August 2003 - December 2004.
LITERATURE
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 171.
清十八世紀 白玉雕嬰戲魚龍擺件

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