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A RARE YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE CARVING OF A BIRD This type of bird carving exhibits an archaic revival style and was
Song Dynasty likely inspired by jade carvings of the Han dynasty; for an example in
Smoothly carved from a stone of yellow and russet tone, the mythical the National Palace Museum, Taipei, see Art in Quest of Heaven and
bird with pointed beak and incised feathers to the wings and tail, its Truth: Chinese Jades through the Ages, 2012, no.3-3-6. For a Song
head gently swayed to its right with legs tucked underneath the body. dynasty example, compare the execution of the deftly carved wings on
5.1cm (2in) wide a pale green jade bird, formerly in the Robert H. Ellsworth collection,
illustrated by J.C.Y.Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing, New
£15,000 - 20,000 York, 1980, p.94, pl.78; see also a related example of a yellow
CNY130,000 - 180,000 jade bird with brown markings, from the collection of Mr and Mrs
B.H.Tisdall, illustrated in Ibid., p.96, pl.81.

宋 黃玉帶皮瑞鳥把件 A similar yellow and russet jade carving of an eagle, Song dynasty,
is illustrated by T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang
Collection of Jade, Hong Kong, 2011, p.88, no.79 and later sold in our
Hong Kong Rooms, 30 May 2017, lot 58.

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