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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION | 瓊肯珍藏重要中國藝術

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A WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A 清十八/十九世紀 白玉雕臥犬
RECUMBENT HOUND
來源:
18TH-19TH CENTURY
史蒂芬 • 瓊肯三世（1978年逝）珍藏。
The slender hound is shown with head alertly turned, ears flopped back
and long tail coiled at the tip. The ribs are delineated and a bell-hung
collar encircles the neck. The stone is of even white color.
3¡ in. (8.7 cm.) long

$40,000-60,000
PROVENANCE:
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.

This finely carved figure of a hound is similar in the quality of the Jade Animals, Hong Kong, 1996, pp. 104-105, no. 75, where it
white stone, and the detailing of its features, including the floppy ears, is dated Tang-Song dynasty. This same figure is illustrated
delineated ribs and coiled tail, to the figure of a hound that is shown by Desmond Gure in "Selected Examples from the Jade
seated rather than recumbent, illustrated in Guyu jingcui, Shanghai, Exhibition of Stockholm," B.M.F.E.A., No. 36, Stockholm,
1987, pl. 148, which is dated to the Qing dynasty. Both of these figures, 1964, Pl. 25 (1), where it is dated Tang dynasty or earlier.
shown as slender hounds with floppy ears and a long curled tail, have Also illustrated, Pl. 25 (2) is a Sui-dynasty pottery figure of a
their antecedents in earlier Tang-Song dynasty examples such as the recumbent hound shown with its head alertly raised and its
yellow and dark brown jade figure of a hound shown facing forward, and front paws crossed.
wearing a belled collar, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Chinese

(another view)

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