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BEYOND COMPARE: A Thousand Years of the Literati Aesthetic














            THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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            A RARE JADE CARVING OF A CAMEL                          ҂   ͗Ꭳቲᓖ΁
            SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
            The recumbent animal is depicted with head turned over its back, the face
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            delicately carved, the body characterised by two gently ridged humps and   ॲߒᘽబˢd    ϋ ˜   ˚dשۜ    ໮
            softly polished vertebrae. The stone is of an opaque greyish-brown tone
            with mottling and dark veining.
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            4 …Õ/”ÿ in. (12.5 cm.) long, box
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            HK$1,200,000-1,800,000                 US$150,000-240,000  ΁֛ϋࡥא҂˾ٙᎣቲ͗ᎉdࠬࣸʿ۶࿒ၾ͉שۜڐЧdɓ΁
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            PROVENANCE
            Sold at Sotheby’s New York, 31 May 1994, lot 15         #SVOEBHFᔚᔛd֛ϋࡥ˾dତᔛɧᖴ̹ԭݲᖵஔ௹ي᎜dഹ፽׵
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            Jade camels from the Tang and Song dynasties are often depicted   ϋdࠫ  dྡو  ໮iɓ΁މ3JDIBSE $  #VMM͸ᙨޜᔛd֛ϋࡥ˾
            recumbent with a coiled neck, like the present carving. This aligns   א˸ܝd    ϋ  ˜ ˚׵ॲߒᘽబˢשርdשۜ   ໮f
            with the stylistic change seen on Song dynasty art when animal
            representations became much more naturalistic. A number of examples   ͵̙ਞϽɓ΁̏ԯ݂ࢗ௹ي৫ᔛ͗ग़ᖕdഐΥ৵࠯eϺ᛫eᎣቲ
            modelled in a similar posture with the animal straining its neck to lick   ࢤdٶͿிۨၾ͉ኜ޴߰d֛ϋ҂˾d̙༟ਞϽdഹ፽׵    ϋ
            or nibble its back or hoof, dated to the Tang or Song dynasty, are   ࠰ಥ̈و݂ࢗ௹ي৫˖يޜۜΌණ͗ኜ€ʕ‘dྡو  ໮
            known, including one dated Tang dynasty or later in the Victoria and
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            Albert Museum, illustrated in Ming Wilson, Chinese Jades, London,
            1997, no. 74; another dated Tang dynasty in the Avery Brundage
            Collection at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by
            James Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing, New York, 1980, p. 61,
            no. 39; and one from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Bull,
            dating to the Tang dynasty or later, sold at Sotheby’s New York, 6
            December 1983, lot 212.

            Compare also to a yellow jade mythical beast with camel humps and
            similar posture as the present piece, dating to the Song dynasty, in the
            Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Jadeware (II), The Complete
            Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, no.
            58 (fig. 1)






















                                                                                  fig. 1  Collection of Palace Museum, Beijing
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