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A YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF AN ELEPHANT
YUAN – MING DYNASTY
portrayed recumbent with its legs neatly tucked beneath its corpulent body, the head depicted gently turned to the left and
rendered with a protruding forehead, narrow eyes and a long curling trunk flanked by a pair of short curved tusks, the substantial
body subtly detailed with grooves to depict characteristic folds of wrinkles and terminating in a long finely incised tail swept against
its left haunch, the stone of a yellowish-green colour with russet streaks
元至明 黃玉臥象
6.8 cm, 2⅝ in.
HK$ 150,000-250,000
US$ 19,200-31,900

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Jon Edwards. Jon Edwards 收藏
Weisbrod Chinese Art Ltd, New York. Weisbrod Chinese Art Ltd，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107
2008, pl. 107.

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