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A WHITE JADE CARVING OF A FOREIGNER 元 明 白玉胡ϯ戲獅把Ы
AND BUDDHIST LION Ϝ源
YUAN-MING DYNASTY (1279-1644) "TILFOB[JF $P
舊金山
年 月 日
-+;珍藏
美४
The foreigner is carved with curly hair and bulging eyes, and shown tussling with a Buddhist
lion over a brocade ball. The stone is of even white tone. ֨ḛ
" $BSUFS
Ǘ5IF -+; $PMMFDUJPO PG
2⅜ in. (6 cm.) high $IJOFTF +BEFTǘ
і敦
年
頁
編號
$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE:
Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 27 August 1990.
The LJZ Collection, United States.

LITERATURE:
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 74-75, no. 32.

A slightly smaller (5.9 cm.) white jade carving depicting a related subject of a foreigner
holding a brocade ball and seated next to small lion is illustrated in Jade Wares Collected
842 by Tianjin Museum, Beijing, 2012, p. 170, no. 152, where it is dated Jin-Yuan.

A MOTTLED PALE GREY JADE FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT IBEX 宋 明 ▥玉臥羊
SONG-MING DYNASTY (AD 960-1644)
Ϝ源
(reverse)
"OHVT 'PSTZUI 珍藏
港
The ibex is shown with the head turned sharply to the right, propped up by the right hindleg,
"OUIPOZ $BSUFS
і敦
年 月 日
with the ridged backbone following the elegant curve of the body. The stone is of greyish-
-+;珍藏
美४
white tone suffused with darker striations.
展覽
3¿ in. (7.9 cm.) long
英४巴斯
東̯藝術博ḵ館
Ǚ+BEFT GSPN
$40,000-60,000 $IJOBǚ
年 月 日
֨ḛ
PROVENANCE: " 'PSTZUI及# .D&MOFZ
Ǘ+BEFT GSPN
Angus Forsyth Collection, Hong Kong. $IJOBǘ
巴斯
年
頁
編號
Anthony Carter, London, 5 January 2007. " $BSUFS
Ǘ5IF -+; $PMMFDUJPO PG
The LJZ Collection, United States. $IJOFTF +BEFTǘ
і敦
年
頁
編號
EXHIBITED:
Bath, England, Museum of East Asian Art, Jades from China, 11 June 1994.
LITERATURE:
A. Forsyth and B. McElney, Jades from China, Bath, 1994, p. 316, no. 228.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 20-21, no. 5.

Small jade figures of this type have been variously referred to as ibex or rams and have
been dated from Tang to Song. A greyish-yellow jade ibex carved in the same position in
the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Chu is illustrated by James C. Y. Watt, Chinese Jades
from Han to Ch’ing, The Asia Society, New York, 1980, p. 52, no. 28, where it is dated Tang
(AD 618-907) or earlier. Watt compares the figure to a greyish-green jade ‘ram’ in the
collection of Desmond Gure, dated early Song, 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. 30, fig. 4. Also illustrated, pl. 30, fig. 3, is an equally small bronze figure of an ibex
(23 in.) from the collection of Mrs. B. Z. Seligman, dated late Tang/Early Song.

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