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            A RARE AND FINELY CARVED PALE GREENISH-WHITE                       清γ隆　青白玉瑞鳥ઘ桃擺Ы
            AND RUSSET JADE 'BIRD AND PEACH' GROUP
                                                                               Ϝ源
            QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
                                                                               "OUIPOZ $BSUFS
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            The group is formed as a recumbent bird grasping a leafy sprig bearing two peaches in its
            beak, with the feathers neatly fanned and finely incised. A four-character Qianlong seal mark   展覽
            is inscribed on the underside. The stone is primarily of a pale greenish-white tone with areas   美४聖安東尼奧 
 聖安東尼奧美術館
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            of russet.                                                         :FBST PG $IJOFTF +BEFǚ
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            3æ in. (9.6 cm.) long
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            $100,000-150,000                                                   +  +PIOTPO及陳麗碧
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                                                                               $IJOFTF +BEFǘ
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            PROVENANCE:
            Anthony Carter, London, 20 September 2005.                         "  $BSUFS
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                                                                               $IJOFTF +BEFTǘ
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            The LJZ Collection, United States.
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            EXHIBITED:
            San Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art, 5000 Years of Chinese Jade, 1 October 2011-
            19 February 2012.
            LITERATURE:
            J. Johnson and Chan Lai Pik, 5000 Years of Chinese Jade, San Antonio, 2011, p. 122, no. 85.
            A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 92-93, no. 40.
            It is very rare to find a jade animal or bird carving bearing a Qianlong mark. This carving   (mark)
            may have been intended as a gift, as the motif of two peaches represents the wish, “may
            you live long” (changshou). This motif can also be seen in two earlier jade carvings. One is
            illustrated in Dr. Newton’s Zoo: A Study of post-Archaic Small Jade Carvings, Bluett & Sons
            Ltd., London, 1981, pp. 18-19, no. 21 and Pl. IV, where it is dated Tang dynasty; the other
            described as a phoenix and dated Song, is illustrated by James C. Watt, Chinese Jades
            from Han to Ch’ing, The Asia Society, 1980, p. 96, no. 80. A white and russet jade carving
            of two birds facing each other (11.5 cm.), which exhibits carving very similar to the present
            figure, in the Qing Court Collection, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures
            of the Palace Museum - 42 - Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 102, pl. 82.

























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