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A SMALL WHITE JADE ‘HARE’ PENDANT
TANG DYNASTY
laying recumbent with its legs tucked into its plump sides and its head nestled between the shoulders, the ears resting atop the back, the rounded
contours of the legs, face, and tail naturalistically rendered, the eyelids, whiskers, and fringes of fur finely incised, pierced through the back with four
additional smaller holes at the belly, the stone an opaque creamy-white color streaked with fine brown veins

唐 白玉雕瑞兔珮
Length 1⅜ in., 3.5 cm
$ 6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Jon Edwards. Jon Edwards 收藏
Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd., New York. Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd.，紐約
EXHIBITED 展覽
A Private Collection of Early Chinese Jades, Weisbrod 《A Private Collection of Early Chinese Jades》，
Chinese Art, Ltd. New York, 1994, cat. no. 12. Weisbrod Chinese Art Ltd.，紐約，1994年，編號12
出版
LITERATURE
Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of 羅伯特•楊門，《楊門藏玉：中國玉器·新石器時代至清代》，
芝加哥，2008年，圖版122
Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008,
pl. 122.

The small hare is tenderly depicted in a natural pose and with careful attention to its anatomy, revealing the artisan’s intimate familiarity with
the animal. This naturalistic approach characterizes Tang dynasty jade carvings of animals, particularly small works carved from pebbles,
such as the present. Compare a small yellow jade carving of a hare in the collection of the British Museum, published in Jessica Rawson,
Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 26:9; and a similarly charming small white jade duck-form pendant in the
collection of the Palace Museum, published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware, vol. 2, Hong Kong,
1995, pl. 10.

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