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                          PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE                                                                                    PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION  Chicago; a green jade horse figure sold in our Hong Kong
                          COLLECTION                                                                                                                                                               rooms, 14th December 1971, lot 38; and one from the
                                                                                                                                                         A SUPERB SMALL YELLOW GREEN JADE
                          A WHITE AND RUSSET JADE ‘BOY AND DOG’                                                                                          MONGOLIAN HORSE                           collection of Mary and George Bloch, sold in these rooms, 23rd
                          CARVING                                                                                                                                                                  October 2005, lot 77. See also a greenish yellow jade horse,
                                                                                                                                                         YUAN-MING DYNASTY                         from the collection of Dr. Ip Yee, included in the Min Chiu
                          QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY                                                                                                                                               Society exhibition Chinese Jade Carving, Hong Kong Museum
                                                                                                                                                         recumbent with his head turned to the right, his ears
                          carved in the round in the form of a boy petting a recumbent                                                                   flattened, the jade with slightly darker markings round his tail  of Art, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 163, together with three Tang
                          dog                                                                                                                            6.5 cm, 2½ in.                            dynasty horse carvings which may have served as inspiration
                          6 cm, 2⅜ in.                                                                                                                                                             for later examples, cat. nos. 131-133.
                                                                                                                                                         PROVENANCE                                Superbe cheval mongol en jade jaune céladon, dynastie Yuan-Ming
                          PROVENANCE
                                                                                                                                                         Northwick Park Collection.
                          Spink & Son Ltd, London, 16th December 1986 (£1,700).                                                                          Christie’s, London, 24th May 1965, lot 97 (£2,510), as Yuan   15 000-20 000 €
                          Enfant et chien en jade blanc et rouille sculpté, dynastie Qing,                                                               dynasty.
                          XVIIIe siècle                                                                                                                  The carver of this horse figure has produced a fine naturalistic   元至明 黃玉馬把件
                                                                                                                                                         sculpture, with the body skilfully fashioned and perfectly   來源 :
                          10 000-15 000 €                                                                                                                balanced. Small jade animal sculptures, generally carved   Northwick Park 珍藏
                                                                                                                                                         in a reclining or seated pose, were made for the scholar’s
                          清十八世紀 白玉童子戲犬把件                                                                                                                 studio and used as paperweights. For a related example,   倫敦佳士得,1965年5月24日,編號97 (2,510 英磅),斷代為元。
                          來源 :                                                                                                                           fashioned in a similar material and sculptural style, see a
                                                                                                                                                         horse published in Gerard Tsang and Hugh Moss, Arts from
                          倫敦斯賓克,1986年12月16日 (1,700 英磅)
                                                                                                                                                         the Scholar’s Studio, Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of
                                                                                                                                                         Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1986, cat. no. 155, sold twice in our
                                                                                                                                                         Hong Kong rooms, 20th May 1981, lot 886, and more recently
                                                                                                                                                         8th April 2013, lot 133, from the Water, Pine and Stone Retreat
                                                                                                                                                         Collection. Compare also a small horse figure, in the collection
                                                                                                                                                         of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, illustrated in James
                                                                                                                                                         C.S. Lin, The Immortal Stone, London, 2009, cat. no. 47.
                                                                                                                                                         Further related examples include a yellow and brown jade
                                                                                                                                                         horse carving illustrated in Jessica Rawson and John Ayers,
                                                                                                                                                         ‘Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages’, Transactions of the
                                                                                                                                                         Oriental Ceramic Society, 1973-75, vol. 40, pls. 203a and
                                                                                                                                                         b, from the Sonnenschein collection in the Art Institute of
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