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A PALE CELADON JADE CARVING OF A COCKEREL
EARLY QING DYNASTY
seated with its legs curled under the body forming a low stand, the head turned back and grasping two openwork stems in its beak, the lingzhi stem
falling alongside the bird’s right cheek with its leaf and cap brushing against the cockerel’s body, a blossoming chrysanthemum stem emerging from
the other side of the beak and its bloom resting on the bird’s tail, the cockerel’s comb and wattle carved in high relief and the wings and tail feathers
articulated in low relief, the stone of a whitish-celadon color with scattered faint russet inclusions
清初 青白玉雕瑞雞把件
Length 2⅝ in., 6.6 cm
$ 6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Roger Keverne, London, 8th April 2010. Roger Keverne，倫敦，2010年4月8日

Compare a related cockerel, grasping a sprig of millet in its beak, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 30th November 2017, lot 26. See also a
similarly modeled figure illustrated in Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 180.

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A BEIGE JADE ‘BADGERS’ GROUP
QING DYNASTY
carved as a pair of frolicking badgers, the larger animal arranged head to tail with its young, their broad heads with large round eyes and small ears,
their bodies plump and each with a well-defined backbone leading to a long curling tail, the stone a warm beige with milky-white inclusions and
russet veining

清 青玉雕雙歡把件
Length 2½ in., 6.5 cm
$ 4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Jon Edwards. Jon Edwards 收藏
LITERATURE 出版
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》，
Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, 芝加哥，2008年，圖版96
pl. 96.

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