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A SUPERB WHITE JADE CARVING OF TWO MONKEYS 清十八世㈵ 白玉雙猴
18TH CENTURY
Ϝ源
鍾華培熙墀珍藏
香港
The carving depicts a seated monkey holding a peach, with its young clambering on its
"OUIPOZ $BSUFS
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年 月 日
back and holding a bat. The white stone is of even tone.
-+;珍藏
美४
2q in. (6.4 cm.) high
展覽
$60,000-80,000 香港
香港藝術館
Ǚ中४肖生玉雕ǚ
年
月 日 月 日
PROVENANCE: ֨ḛ
Chung Wah Pui, The Hei-Chi Collection, Hong Kong. 香港藝術館
Ǘ中४肖生玉雕ǘ
香港
年
Anthony Carter, London, 5 January 2007. 頁
編號
The LJZ Collection, United States. 姜濤及劉雲㍿
Ǘ熙墀藏玉ǘ
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年
頁
EXHIBITED: " $BSUFS
Ǘ5IF -+; $PMMFDUJPO PG
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Jade Animals, 19 April-14 July 1996. $IJOFTF +BEFTǘ
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LITERATURE:
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong, 1996, pp. 180-81, no. 172.
Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection, Beijing, 2006, p. 195.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 86-87, no. 37.
This carving of a monkey holding a large peach while its baby clings to its back represents
the rebus shoutao, which Terese Tse Bartholomew interprets as “Sacred monkey offers
longevity (linghou xianshou), in Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art, Asian Art Museum, San
Francisco, 2006, p. 198, no. 7.40.1, where a green jade carving of this subject is illustrated.
See, also, the white jade carving, dated 17 century, in the Victoria and Albert Museum,
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illustrated by Jessica Rawson, “Chinese Jade throughout the ages”, Victoria and Albert
Museum, T.O.C.S., vol. 40, 1973-75, p. 123, no. 402.

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