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A GREY JADE FIGURE OF A DEER
YUAN – MING DYNASTY
well worked in the round as a recumbent deer with the head held high and legs neatly folded beneath the body, rendered with
an alert expression below a pair of openwork horns issuing from the top of its head and extending towards its curved rump, the
rounded body terminating with a short tail at the rear, the stone of a grey colour with extensive greyish-black patches

元至明 灰玉臥鹿
7.2 cm, 2⅞ in.
HK$ 100,000-150,000
US$ 12,800-19,200

PROVENANCE 來源
Acquired in New York. 購於紐約
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104
2008, pl. 104.

For another example of a somewhat similar deer see Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London,
1995, p. 370, no. 26:13.

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