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A SUPERB AND LARGE WHITE JADE 清乾隆 白玉太平有象擺件
‘ELEPHANT AND VASE’ GROUP
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
substantially worked with a well-hollowed figure of an elephant
standing foursquare with its head turned backwards to face a
standing young boy, caparisoned with a long tasselled saddle
rug decorated on each side with five bats soaring above
waves crashing against rockwork, the back of the elephant
further depicted with two clambering boys, one holding a ruyi
sceptre, the other a rhinoceros horn, the two boys rendered
flanking a cover worked in the form of a hollow lobed baluster
vase, detailed on the exterior with taotie masks and archaistic
plantain blades, the stone of a even white colour, wood stand
16.6 cm, 6½ in.
HK$ 2,500,000-3,500,000
US$ 319,000-446,000
46 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比
