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A VERY RARE AND IMPORTANT PALE GREENISH-WHITE 漢 ▥青玉鳥
AND GREY JADE FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT BIRD
Ϝ源
HAN DYNASTY (206 BC-AD 220) 鍾華培熙墀珍藏
香港
年ע
"OUIPOZ $BSUFS
і敦
年 月 日
The bird with trefoil crest and curved beak is shown in a recumbent position, with the tail
-+;珍藏
美४
feathers neatly fanned and the legs tucked beneath the body. The pale greenish-white stone
has patches of grey and some veining. 展覽
香港
香港藝術館
Ǚ中४肖生玉雕ǚ
3¡ in. (8.6 cm.) long 年 月 日 月 日
$120,000-180,000
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香港藝術館
Ǘ中४肖生玉雕ǘ
香港
PROVENANCE: 頁
編號 及封底
Chung Wah Pui, The Hei-Chi Collection, Hong Kong, by 1996. 姜濤及劉雲㍿
Ǘ熙墀藏玉ǘ
٫̺
年
Anthony Carter, London, 5 January 2007. 頁
" $BSUFS
Ǘ5IF -+; $PMMFDUJPO PG
The LJZ Collection, United States.
$IJOFTF +BEFTǘ
і敦
年
頁
EXHIBITED: 編號
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Jade Animals, 19 April-14 July 1996.
LITERATURE:
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong, 1996, pp. 86-87, no. 53
and back cover.
Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection, Beijing, 2006, p. 117.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 12-13, no. 1.
This rare jade figure of a seated bird (7.3 cm.) is very similar to a figure described as a
nd
st
pommel and dated mid-Western Han to Eastern Han period, 1 century BC – 2 century
AD, illustrated in Curio Boxes of Qianlong Emperor, p. 142, National Palace Museum, Taipei,
2019. (Fig. 1) A bird-form water pot of comparable size (3¡ in.) and with very similar tail
and legs in the collection of the King of Sweden, is illustrated by Desmond Gure, “Selected
Examples from the Jade Exhibition at Stockholm, 1963; A Comparative Study”, B.M.F.E.A.,
Fig. 1 Jade staff pommel in the shape of a turtledove,
no. 36, 1964, pl. 14, p. 133, where it is dated Wei (AD 220-265).
Mid-Western Han-Eastern Han dynasties, BC 140-
AD 220. National Palace Museum, Taipei,
故玉 /
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西漢中期至東漢
西元ע
西元 年
臺٫४⒤故宮博ḵ院藏
館藏編號
故玉 /

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