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757 PROVENANCE D Schwartz 1982
G Malina Inc
PROPERTY FROM A MIDWEST PRIVATE Collection of Mrs. D. Schwartz, Tunbridge Wells,
COLLECTION England (by repute).
G. Malina, Inc., New York, 1982.
A CELADON JADE ‘BOYS’ GROUP
LATE MING / EARLY QING Another jade carving of a boy with a stalk of rice,
DYNASTY dated to the late Ming period, is illustrated in
Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing, Asia Society,
carved in the round, the taller gure bearing New York, 1980, cat. no. 97. The depiction of
stalks of rice, the stems bent over from the two boys with two heads of grain could be an
weight of the grain heads resting against the allusion to the Hehe Erxian, however, as Teresa
back of the shoulder, the other gure holding Tse Bartholomew explains in Hidden Meanings:
a tasseled drum and mallet, both smiling and Symbolism in Chinese Art, San Francisco, 2006,
wearing draped robes with pendent sash belts, p. 246, an overladen stalk of grain symbolizes the
the stone with cloudy and dark gray inclusions,
ve grains, or wugu, and represents a bumper
tted wood stand (2) harvest.
Height 5⅞ in., 14.9 cm
$ 30,000-50,000
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