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A VERY RARE PALE GREENISH-GREY JADE FIGURE OF 宋 明 ▥青玉臥象
A RECUMBENT ELEPHANT
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The recumbent elephant is shown with the legs tucked underneath its body and the head -+;珍藏
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turned to one side, with finely incised lines to highlight details such as the folds of the ears.
The stone is of a greyish-green tone and has some fine russet striations. 展覽
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2w in. (7.3 cm.) long, cloth box 年
$100,000-150,000 ֨ḛ
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PROVENANCE:
Professor Cheng Te-k'un (1908-2001), The Mu-Fei Collection, Cambridge, England. " $BSUFS
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$IJOFTF +BEFTǘ
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Bluett & Sons, London, 31 December 1990.
編號
The LJZ Collection, United States.
EXHIBITED:
London, Bluett & Sons Ltd., Chinese Jades from the Mu-Fei Collection, 1990.
LITERATURE:
B. Morgan and Wu Hung, Chinese Jades from the Mu-Fei Collection, London, 1990, no. 65.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 28-29, no. 9.

A yellowish-grey-green jade figure of a reclining elephant of slightly smaller size
(7 cm.) and with more simply rendered features, from the collection of Desmond Gure,
is illustrated by Gure in “Selected Examples from the Jade Exhibition at Stockholm, 1963,
A Comparative Study”, B.M.F.E.A., No. 36, 1964, pl. 23, no. 3, where it is dated late Tang
or early Song. A white jade figure of a standing elephant with head turned (10.9 cm.), from
the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Chu, is illustrated by Ip Yee in Chinese Jade Carving,
Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1983, pp. 166-67. no. 153. Dated the Ming dynasty, the Chu
elephant is more robust in appearance than the current figure and has more rounded
features. See, also, the yellow jade seal dating to the Southern Song dynasty carved on
top with an elephant with head turned to one side, from Cangnan, Zhejiang province, is
illustrated by Gu Fang (ed.) in The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in China, vol. 8,
Beijing, 2005, p. 216.

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