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CHINESE JADES FROM THE COLLECTION OF T. EUGENE WORRELL
731
A BROWN AND OLIVE-GREEN JADE FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT
CAMEL
MING-QING DYNASTY (1368-1911)
The camel is shown with its head sharply turned and resting against the front
hump. The stone is of a rich brown and amber tone with an olive-green area
and some brown speckles.
2¬ in. (6.6 cm.) long

$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE:
Christie's London, 1 December 1997, lot 10.
EXHIBITED:
Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, 1997-2022.
A similarly carved camel in the Avery Brundage Collection is illustrated in
729 730 Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1980, cat.
no. 39, where it is dated to the Tang dynasty.
CHINESE JADES FROM THE COLLECTION OF T. EUGENE WORRELL CHINESE JADES FROM THE COLLECTION OF T. EUGENE WORRELL
729 730 T. EUGENE WORRELL珍藏中國玉器 (another view)
A MOTTLED GREY, BLACK AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A A MOTTLED GREY JADE FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT HORSE 明/清 青褐玉駱駝擺件
RECUMBENT CAMEL MING DYNASTY (1368-1644) 來源:
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
The horse is shown with the head raised and turned sharply to the right, 倫敦佳士得, 1997年12月1日, 拍品編號10
The camel is shown with head turned over the back and resting on the front propped up by the left foreleg, with the mouth agape and the teeth bared as 展覽:
hump, with incised hair markings on the humps and the mane. The stone is if neighing, the ridged backbone following the elegant curve of the body. The 夏洛茨維爾, Worrell家族藝廊, 1997-2022年
of a mottled grey and black tone with areas of russet and blackish-brown mane and tail are incised with fine hair markings and the stone is of greyish-
variegation. brown tone suffused with darker striations.
3¬ in. (9.2 cm.) long 3¿ in. (7.9 cm.) long

$6,000-8,000 $5,000-7,000
PROVENANCE: PROVENANCE:
Christie's New York, 29 November 1990, lot 20. Important Jade Carvings from a Private Collection; Christie's Hong Kong, 26
April 2004, lot 1272.
EXHIBITED:
Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, 1994-2022. EXHIBITED:
Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, 2004-2022.
LITERATURE:
J. Ayers, A Jade Menagerie: Creatures Real and Imaginary from the Worrell
Collection, London, 1993, no. 28. T. EUGENE WORRELL珍藏中國玉器
明 灰玉臥馬擺件
T. EUGENE WORRELL珍藏中國玉器 來源:
明 灰褐玉駱駝擺件 德馨書屋; 香港佳士得, 2004年4月26日, 拍品編號1272
來源: 展覽:
紐約佳士得, 1990年11月29日, 拍品編號20. 夏洛茨維爾, Worrell家族藝廊, 2004-2022年
展覽:
夏洛茨維爾, Worrell家族藝廊, 1994-2022年
出版:
J. Ayers, 《A Jade Menagerie: Creatures Real and Imaginary from the
Worrell Collection》, 倫敦, 1993年, 編號28

730 (another view)

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