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A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF 二十世紀 青白玉背書麒麟
A QILIN
20TH CENTURY 此背書麒麟把件，雕工精湛，栩栩如生，細微之處如鏤空
靈芝與瑞獸蹄子等，盡顯細緻。小型玉雕把件常見於文人
well depicted recumbent with the hind legs tucked beneath 書房，可作紙鎮用，亦或單獨把玩。
the body, rendered with its head held high and grasping a
stream of scrolling clouds supporting a book on its back, the 比較另一麒麟駝書例，為 H.F. Goldstein 收藏，展於東
beast further detailed with round eyes, curled whiskers and a 方陶瓷學會，《Chinese Jade throughout the Ages》
scaly body, the stone of a pale celadon colour highlighted with ，維多利亞與艾伯特博物館，倫敦，編號374；另見一例
russet veins 展於《Jade as Sculpture》，明尼蘇達博物館，明尼蘇
10.5 cm, 4⅛ in. 達，1975年，編號11；第三例先後售於倫敦蘇富比1967
年6月6/7日，編號341，及紐約佳士得2011年9月15日，
HK$ 150,000-200,000 編號1030。
US$ 19,400-25,800

This animated mythical creature has been skilfully carved
in the round to capture both its playfulness and its archaic
roots. The carver’s dexterity with the medium is apparent in
the intricately detailed hooves and crisply rendered openwork
web of lingzhi-shaped clouds. Small jade carvings of this
type were commonly kept in the scholar’s studio where they
were admired as prized possessions and utilised both as
paperweights and as works of arts in their own right.

Compare a figure of a qilin similarly modelled with a book on
its back raised on clouds, from the collection of H. F. Goldstein,
included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Chinese
Jade throughout the Ages, Victoria and Albert Museum,
London, cat. no. 374; another included in the exhibition Jade as
Sculpture, Minnesota Museum of Art, Minnesota, 1975, cat. no.
11; and a third sold in our London rooms, 6th/7th June 1967,
lot 341, and again at Christie’s New York, 15th September 2011,
lot 1030.

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