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A large white and brown jade carving of a bird
140 and chick
164 | Bonhams 17th century
The large white stone with patches of brown inclusions carved as
a crested bird on webbed feet with head coiled around beside its
body embellished with archaistic scroll details and grasping in its
beak two stems, one issuing a lotus flower and the other a spreading
leaf, a charming crested chick sheltering under one of its mother’s
spreading wings, wood stand. 19cm (7½in) long (2).
£2,000 - 3,000
HK$25,000 - 37,000 CNY20,000 - 29,000

十七世紀 白玉帶皮雕鳥型擺件
Provenance: an English private collection

來源：英國私人收藏
Compare a related large grey and brown jade ‘duck’ brushwasher,
sold in these rooms on 13 May 2010, lot 4, and now in the
Songzhutang Collection; see T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The
Songzhutang Collection of Jade, Hong Kong, 2011, pl.89.

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A pale green jade carving of a duck and peaches
Late Qing Dynasty
The recumbent duck with its head turning to the right, supported on
folded feet, grasping an intricate stalk of peaches and blossoms in
its beak carved in high relief, the tail feathers neatly overlapped with
incised scrolls, the softly-polished stone of pale tone, wood stand.
19cm (7½in) long (2)
£5,000 - 8,000
HK$62,000 - 100,000 CNY49,000 - 79,000

清晚期 青玉雕銜桃鴨子