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A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A BOY 清十八世㈵ 白玉擊鼓童子把Ы
WITH A DRUM
Ϝ源
18TH CENTURY 鍾華培熙墀珍藏
香港
"OUIPOZ $BSUFS
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年 月 日
The figure is shown seated next to a drum detailed with bosses and holding a ruyi scepter,
-+;珍藏
美४
and wearing voluminous robes that falls in ripples to the underside. The even white stone is
accented with sparse russet highlights. 展覽
香港
香港藝術館
Ǚ中४玉雕ǚ
年 月
2q in. (6.4 cm.) wide 日 月 日
$80,000-120,000 ֨ḛ
葉義
Ǘ中४玉雕ǘ
香港
年
頁

編號
PROVENANCE:
Chung Wah Pui, The Hei-Chi Collection, Hong Kong. 姜濤及劉雲㍿
Ǘ熙墀藏玉ǘ
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年
頁
Anthony Carter, London, 5 January 2007.
" $BSUFS
Ǘ5IF -+; $PMMFDUJPO PG
The LJZ Collection, United States.
$IJOFTF +BEFTǘ
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年
頁
EXHIBITED: 編號
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Jade Carving, 21 October-24 December 1983.
LITERATURE:
Ip Yee, Chinese Jade Carving, Hong Kong, 1983, pp. 192-93, no. 175.
Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection, Beijing, 2006, p. 189.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 88-89, no. 38.

The drum symbolizes strength and the motif of boys playing drums, which was popular
throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, represents the wish for many sons. In jade
carvings, it is common to see the theme depicted as one boy and one drum, as in the
present figure, or as two boys beating on the same drum.

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