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A VERY RARE WHITE AND RUSSET JADE ‘BOY AND CAT’ The theme of boys playing with animals represents a traditional motif
BRUSH REST developed over a thousand years and favoured on account of the
Yuan/Ming Dynasty implied wish for the prosperity of male offspring and continuity of the
Finely carved as a recumbent boy, lying in a relaxed posture with family. In the present carving, cleverly carved to form a brush rest for
his legs crossed, wearing a tunic belted at his waist over trousers the literati desk, the recumbent boy is holding a cat. The cat is a pun for
exquisitely adorned with a diaper ground stopping short of his bare ‘age eighty to ninety’, making this piece appropriate for a birthday gift.
feet, his head raised looking up with a cheerful expression, caressing
and holding a recumbent cat tucked between his arms, the stone of Compare with a related jade standing figure of a boy holding a black
even white tone with russet inclusions cleverly utilised to denote the cat, illustrated by A.Forsyth and B.McElney, Jades From China, Bath,
trousers, box. 1994, pl.242; compare also with a related white jade ‘boy and cat’
7.5cm (2 15/16in) long (2). group, attributed to the 18th century, from the Muwen Tang Collection,
which was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2016, lot 15.
£8,000 - 12,000
CNY70,000 - 110,000

元/明 白玉帶皮雕童子戲貓

Provenance: Durwin Tang Collection

來源：鄧德雍收藏

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.