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A GREY JADE FIGURE OF A BIRD
SONG–MING DYNASTY
well worked with a swelling breast and a rounded body depicted in low relief on the underside with a pair of legs and feet, the back
terminating in a protruding elongated thick tail incised with parallel lines, flanked on the sides by a pair of wings accentuated with
linear and cross-hatched incisions, the round head of the bird with a short beak and depicted with a long slender crest extending
backwards to the rounded back, the stone of a variegated dark bluish-grey colour mottled with light and brown inclusions

宋至明 玉鳥珮
5.8 cm, 2¼ in.
HK$ 70,000-90,000
US$ 9,000-11,500

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Jon Edwards. Jon Edwards 收藏
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83
2008, pl. 83.

THE ROBERT YOUNGMAN COLLECTION OF CHINESE JADE 105