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A chicken-bone jade tortoise-dragon
Ming Dynasty
The greyish ochre stone unusually carved as a tortoise with the head of
a two-horned dragon turning to look behind and breathing cloud scrolls
wreathing around a collection of books balanced on the tortoise’s back,
the long tail spreading up over the shell and the four feet with gently
curled claws, box.
9cm (3 1/2in) long (2).
£20,000 - 30,000
HK$240,000 - 350,000 CNY190,000 - 280,000
明 雞骨玉雕贔屭
Compare a related white and russet jade carving of a mythical beast
water container, tuo long, Ming Dynasty, illustrated in Chinese Jade
Animals, Hong Kong, 1996, Catalogue no.138.

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