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A CELADON AND BROWN JADE ‘TIGER’ Skilfully carved in the round, this piece is notable for the clever
GROUP use of the natural colouration of the stone to highlight the
PROBABLY QING DYNASTY ferocious expression of the tiger who holds the chilong to the
ground. The subject of a tiger and chilong is rare, although
well worked and reticulated in the form of a tiger trampling depictions of tigers in combat are known in jade and bronze
ferociously on a chilong, the latter portrayed defending with from as early as the Han dynasty, such as the carving in the
an extended foreleg, the tiger further rendered with gaping British Museum, London, illustrated in Jessica Rawson, From
jaws and a body detailed with incised streaks, the light brown the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 26:5, together with
section of the yellowish celadon pebble utilised to depict the its bronze counterpart, p. 361, fig. 1.
heads of the beasts
5.2 cm, 2 in.
HK$ 30,000-40,000
US$ 3,850-5,200
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