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A YELLOW JADE FIGURE OF A DEER 十七世紀 黃玉臥鹿
17TH CENTURY
7 cm 展覽：
許建勳、彭綺雲、劉瑞隆，《閣有天珍：中國文房
EXHIBITED 玉雕》，香港大學美術博物館，香港，2008年，編
Humphrey Hui, Tina Pang, and Michael Liu, Virtuous 號101
Treasures: Chinese Jades for the Scholar’s Table, The
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2008, cat. no. 101. 玉雕瑞鹿，精妙靈動，取溫潤黃玉琢之。巧匠高能，
重現仙鹿自然靈動姿態，栩栩如真，端雅脫俗，並寄
HK$ 150,000-200,000 意道家長壽不老之祝願。玉鹿不僅工藝臻善，賞心悅
US$ 19,400-25,800 目，通體潤澤輝耀，柔滑適手，玩賞之間，令人愛不
釋手。
Small jade carvings of animals, often depicted in recumbent 朱家祥伉儷收藏有一白玉子母瑞獸，面部輪廓處理相
poses, became an essential item for the scholar’s desk as 類，可資比較，曾展於《中國玉雕》，香港藝術館，
they were used both as paperweights and as works of art in
their own right. This exquisite carving of a crouching deer is 香港，1983年，編號143；牡丹堂藏另有一相類臥羊
fashioned from a fine stone of an attractive yellow tone. The 作例，曾展於霍壐及麥雅理，《Jades from China》，
skilled artisan succeeded in capturing the lively spirit of the 東亞藝術博物館，巴斯，1994年，編號277。
creature, whilst conveying the Daoist essence of longevity
and immortality. The silky finish of the present piece gives it 鹿形玉雕可溯至唐代，道家學說納靈鹿於龍、鳳等神
an extremely tactile quality. 瑞異獸之列，進而盛行。參考一件唐代青玉臥鹿，
Compare a white jade carving of a mythical beast and its cub 尺寸較小，頭頂以玉皮琢雕珍珠盤式鹿角，現藏北
from the collection of Mr and Mrs Philip Chu, with closely 京故宮博物院，錄於《中國玉器全集》，卷5，石家
related treatment of the facial contours, included in the Min 莊，1993年，圖版38。
Chiu Society exhibition Chinese Jade Carving, Hong Kong
Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 143; and another
jade figure of a ram from the Peony Collection, exhibited in
Angus Forsyth and Brian McElney, Jades from China, The
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1994, cat. no. 277.
Jade carvings of deer can be found as early as the Tang
dynasty, when they began to be widely associated with
Daoist notions of immortal worlds. Compare a Tang-dynasty
celadon jade crouching deer in the collection of the Palace
Museum, Beijing, smaller in size and with a flat, oval-
shaped horn on the top of its head, illustrated in Zhongguo
yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jade], vol. 5,
Shijiazhuang, 1993, pl. 38.

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