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A WHITE JADE OF ‘HORSES AND MONKEY’ A PALE GREEN JADE CARVING OF A BUDDHIST LION
Qianlong 18th century
Superbly carved as two recumbent horses with the legs neatly folded Skilfully carved as a recumbent Buddhist lion with clawed paws, finely
and tucked underneath the bodies, both heads with finely-incised incised bushy tail and knobbly spine, the head turned sharply to the
manes turned back facing each other, the monkey precariously right, with prominent eyebrows above bulging eyes and ruyi-shaped
climbing between them, grasping a rein strapped to the bridle of the nose, the stone of even greenish-white tone with minor cloud-white
right horse, the translucent stone of a white tone. inclusions on the back, wood stand.
8.5cm (3 3/8in) long. 9cm (3 1/2in) long. (2).

£4,000 - 6,000 £4,000 - 7,000
CNY35,000 - 53,000 CNY35,000 - 61,000

清乾隆 白玉馬上封侯把件 十八世紀 青白玉瑞獅把件

Provenance: Christie’s London, 14 December 1978, lot 49 Provenance: John Sparks Ltd., London, 21 June 1978
Lowenthal Collection, no.56 Lowenthal Collection, no.57

來源：倫敦佳士得，1978年12月14日，拍品編號49 來源：1978年6月21日，購於倫敦John Sparks Ltd.
Lowenthal藏品，编號56 Lowenthal藏品，编號57

The monkey (hou 猴), is a homophone for ‘marquis’ (hou 侯), which on
top of a horse (mashang 馬上), also meaning ‘quickly’, is a rebus for
‘quick ennoblement’ or rising quickly up the ladder of success in one’s
career. Compare with a related jade carving of a horse and monkey,
Qianlong, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures in the Palace Museum: Jadeware (III), Hong
Kong, 1995, p.111, no.91.

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