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A PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE CARVING OF A QILIN A FINE PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE ‘BIXIE’ WATER
Early Ming Dynasty DROPPER
The recumbent mythical animal carved with its head sharply turned Yuan/ Ming Dynasty
towards its back, exhaling from its mouth a wispy cloud supporting The mythical beast carved with its legs tucked under its rotund body
a book, the legs covered with incised scales, the stone of pale green with a thick bifurcated tail, its head tilted back slightly with the mouth
tone with extensive russet-brown skin. formed as a small circle hollowed from the stone between its fangs,
6cm (2 3/8in) long. its ears pricked back toward a circular aperture on its back opening to
a cavity, the smoothly polished pale green stone with toffee-coloured
£2,500 - 3,000 streaks.
CNY22,000 - 26,000 6cm (2 3/8in) long.

明初 青玉帶皮麒麟吐書把件 £4,000 - 6,000
CNY35,000 - 52,000
Provenance:
John Christopherson (1921-1996) collection of Chinese jades 元/明 青白玉帶皮辟邪水注
An English private collection
Provenance:
來源： John Christopherson (1921-1996) 先生舊藏 John Christopherson (1921-1996) collection of Chinese jades
英國私人收藏 An English private collection

來源： John Christopherson (1921-1996) 先生舊藏
英國私人收藏

146 | BONHAMS Compare with a similar jade water dropper, carved as a bixie, dated
to the Ming dynasty, included in the collection of the Palace Museum,
Beijing, illustrated in Scholar’s Paraphernalia, Beijing, 2009, pl.251,
pp.232-233.

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.