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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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