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六 62. Crouching single-horned Buddhist lion with folded back ears and head turned looking at its cub, with detailed work to the relief spine

十 and claws and hairwork on its back, mane and tail, the stone white.

二 3 ¼ inches, 8.3 cm long.

Qianlong, 1736-1795.
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獅 • From the collection of Mr and Mrs Emile Gavage-Longree, St. Etienne, Belgium.
少 • Purchased in the 1970s.
獅 • A similar group is illustrated by Chen Hao in the Zhejiang Provincial Museum exhibition of Jade Blossom, Imperial Xiuneisi

白 Jade Objects and Ancient Jade Gems Collected by the Xu’s of Cixi, Zhejiang, 2010, pp. 196/7; another, from the Rothschild family
玉 collection, was included by Marchant in their 85th anniversary exhibition of Chinese Jades from Tang to Qing, 2010, no. 91, pp.
126/7; a further example is illustrated by Yun Xi Zheng in The Collection of Jades in the Tianjin City Art Museum, pl. 225; yet

乾 another, from the Dane bequest in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, is illustrated by Joan M. Hartman in Chinese Jade
隆 of Five Centuries, pl. 15, pp. 57/9; a further example was included by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in their exhibition of A

Passion for Jade: The Heber Bishop Collection, 2015, no. 9, Accession No. 02.18.381.

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