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The Property of a Gentleman 紳士藏品
Lots 129 - 134
129 The colour of the stone and treatment of carving point to a late Ming to
A large white and brown jade carving of a bird and chick early Qing Dynasty period. The expansive use of such a large size jade
stone as a decorative object indicates the importance of the owner for
17th century whom the carving would have been commissioned.
The large white stone with patches of brown inclusions carved as a Compare a related large grey and brown jade ‘duck’ brushwasher, sold
in these rooms on 13 May 2010, lot 4, and now in the Songzhutang
crested bird settled on its webbed feet with head coiled around beside Collection; see T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang
Collection of Jade, Hong Kong, 2011, pl.89.
its body embellished with archaistic scroll details and gasping in its beak
two stems, one issuing a lotus flower and the other a spreading leaf, a
charming crested chick sheltering under one of its mother’s spreading
wings.
19cm (7½in) long
£8,000 - 12,000
HK$94,000 - 140,000 CNY75,000 - 110,000
十七世紀 白玉棕沁鳥型擺件
Provenance: an English private collection
來源：英國私人收藏
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