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A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A BEAST
SHANG DYNASTY
depicted crouching on all fours and terminating in a long tapering tail curling upwards at the end, the muscular contours of the
horned beast, possibly a stylised tiger, superbly rendered with rounded outlines, incised overall with double-line scrollwork, the
prominent snout rendered ferocious with an open mouth baring its fangs below oval eyes, the lustrous stone of a variegated
celadon colour accentuated with attractive russet veining
商 青白玉琥
10.3 cm, 4 in.
HK$ 350,000-450,000
US$ 44,700-57,500

PROVENANCE 來源
Alvin Lo Oriental Art Ltd, New York 春源齋，紐約
LITERATURE 出版
Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection 羅伯特．楊門，《楊門藏玉：中國玉器．新石器時代至
of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 清代》，芝加哥，2008年，圖版41
2008, no. 41.

Closely related carvings of tigers were discovered at the late Shang tomb of Fu Hao, a consort of King Wu Ding (r. 1324-1265
B.C.), and illustrated in Tomb of Lady Hao at Yinxu in Anyang, Beijing, 1980, pl. CXXXV, pls 1 and 2, together a malachite tiger,
pl. CLXXV, no. 4, and one carved from bone, pl. CLXXXIII, no. 3. Compare also a tiger from the Yangdetang collection, sold at
Christie's Hong Kong, 29th November 2017, lot 2725.
Jade tigers of this type appear to derive from contemporary depictions of tigers on bronzes from southern China, as
discussed by Jessica Rawson in Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 206, where she illustrates a line
drawing of a bronze tiger with one of a jade example from the tomb of Fu Hao, fig. 3.

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