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PROPERTY OF A LADY
PROPERTY OF A LADY
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235 TWO AMBER CARVINGS
A WHITE JADE BELT HOOK One possibly Ming, the other Qing
18th Century One of a mythical horned leonine beast in a slightly coiled position
The very white stone of attractive even color with a high polish, with her cub clambering on her back and with their bushy tails
carved and pierced with a sinuous chilong on the tapering shaft entwined, the amber of a transparent pale honey tone; the other
grasping a lingzhi spray in its mouth and facing the dragon-head of a darker semi-opaque brown amber depicting a tiger standing
terminal of the belt, the underside with an oval button. on rockwork next to a pine tree with a monkey clambering in its
4 1/2in (11.6cm) long, wood stand branches above (2) the first 3 5/16in (8.4cm) long; the other 3
15/16in (10cm) high
$1,200 - 1,800
$3,000 - 5,000
十八世紀 白玉帶鈎
明/清 琥珀小雕兩件
Provenance
A Private English Collector in the US., 1970’s to the present day Provenance
A Private English Collector in the US., 1970’s to the present day
出處：
美國英裔私人收藏，1970 年代至今 出處：
美國英裔私人收藏，1970 年代至今
For another example see Christie’s, New York, The Lizzadro
Collection, 8 October 2014, lot 53 and another Christie’s, New York, For a similar amber group of a lion cub clambering on the back of
‘The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Part III’, 19 March 2015, its mother, see Sotheby’s, London, ‘Menagerie: An English Private
lot 632; and another similar, Christie’s, Hong Kong, 29 May 2019, lot Collection Of Chinese Animal Carvings’, 10 May 2017, lot 88.
3130 (one of two). Compare also a related amber carving of a lion and cubs illustrated
by R. Soame Jenyns and William Watson, Chinese Art: The Minor
Arts II, London, 1965, pl. 103.

For a comparable amber carving of a tiger at the base of pine tree,
see Rob Michiels Auctions, Bruge, Belgium, 6 October 2018, lot 337.

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