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A WHITE JADE ‘BOY AND GOOSE’ 清十八世紀 白玉戲鵝童子 A CELADON AND GREY JADE FIGURE The present lot represents some of the 明 灰青玉臥馬
GROUP OF A HORSE finest examples of large jade animal carvings
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY 展覽： MING DYNASTY originating from workshops at the end of the 來源：
許建勳、彭綺雲、劉瑞隆，《閣有天珍： Ming Dynasty.
6.7 cm 12.5 cm 高福履收藏
中國文房玉雕》，香港大學美術博物館， Dynamically modelled with its head raised 香港佳士得1995年10月30日，編號864
EXHIBITED 香港，2008年，編號122 PROVENANCE and turned backwards, the jade horse is 展覽：
Humphrey Hui, Tina Pang, and Michael Liu, Collection of Gerald Godfrey. naturalistically carved with taut muscles and a 《Chinese Jade: The Image from Within》，
Virtuous Treasures: Chinese Jades for the Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th October 1995, lot 864. pronounced spine, skillfully detailed with incised
Scholar’s Table, The University of Hong Kong, mane, tail and tufts of hair behind the hooves. 亞太博物館，加州，1986年，編號143
Hong Kong, 2008, cat. no. 122. EXHIBITED The carving exemplifies the thriving artistic 《Reverence of a Stone: An Exhibition of
Chinese Jade, The Image from Within, Pacific Chinese Jade from the Godfrey Collection》
HK$ 40,000-60,000 Asia Museum, California, 1986, cat. no. 143. tradition of equine representations during this ，聖安東尼奧藝術博物館，德克薩斯
period, which strives to capture more than the
US$ 5,200-7,800 Reverence of a Stone: An Exhibition of Chinese mere physical likeness of subjects but to convey 州，1986年
Jade from the Godfrey Collection, San Antonio the creature’s innate strength and its playful 《Stones of Virtue, Chinese Jades from the
Museum of Art, Texas, 1986. nature. Gerald Godfrey Collection》，代頓藝術學
Stones of Virtue, Chinese Jades from the Gerald 院，俄亥俄州，1989年，編號212
Godfrey Collection, The Dayton Art Institute, Jessica Rawson discusses a stylistically similar
Ohio, 1989, cat. no. 212. large grey-green jade horse, which she identifies 《Magic, Art and Order, Jade in Chinese
Magic, Art and Order, Jade in Chinese Culture, as 17th century, in Chinese Jade from the Culture》，棕櫚泉美術館，加州，1990
Palm Springs Desert Museum, California, 1990, Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 26:20. 年，編號41
cat. no. 41. Another comparable Ming dynasty jade horse 許建勳、彭綺雲、劉瑞隆，《閣有天珍：
Humphrey Hui, Tina Pang, and Michael Liu, from the John D. Rockefeller 3rd collection was 中國文房玉雕》，香港大學美術博物館，
Virtuous Treasures: Chinese Jades for the illustrated in Handbook of the Mr and Mrs John 香港，2008年，編號102
Scholar’s Table, The University of Hong Kong, D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, New York, 1981, p.
Hong Kong, 2008, cat. no. 102. 57, top left.
HK$ 150,000-250,000
US$ 19,400-32,200
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