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A GREY AND BLACK JADE                                       AN IVORY ‘CHILONG’ SEAL                                     A CELADON JADE GOOSE
‘DRAGON’ PEBBLE                                             QING DYNASTY, 18TH                                          QING DYNASTY, 18TH
EARLY MING DYNASTY                                          CENTURY                                                     CENTURY

A similar pebble carving of a dragon and chilong was        Compare a slightly larger ivory chilong seal set upon       Compare a white jade goose with its head turned
included in the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong       a double gourd-shaped plinth with a two-character           backwards to grasp a millet sprig in its mouth, in the
exhibition, Arts from the Scholar’s Studio, Fung Ping Shan  inscription yiyang (‘the same as’), attributed to the Ming  Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Compendium
Museum, Hong Kong, 1986, cat. no. 182.                      dynasty, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society of        of Collections in the Palace Museum, Jade, vol. 9, Qing
                                                            Hong Kong exhibition Arts from the Scholar’s Studio,        Dynasty, Beijing, 2011, pl. 153.
55                                                          Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong,
                                                            Hong Kong, 1986, cat. no. 198.                              74
A BROWN AND WHITE JADE
‘DRAGON AND CLOUD’ FINIAL                                   65                                                          A SONG-STYLE YELLOW JADE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH                                                                                                      ‘HAWK’ PENDANT
CENTURY                                                     A WHITE JADE CRANE                                          17TH/18TH CENTURY
                                                            QING DYNASTY, 17TH/18TH
See a slightly larger jade finial from the Avery Brundage    CENTURY                                                     Pendants in the form of hawks with outstretched wings
Collection, in the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco,                                                                     were influenced by Han dynasty prototypes, such as
illustrated in René-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé, Chinese        See a jade crane similarly carved with its head sharply     one excavated in Xinzhuang village, Shaanxi province,
Jades in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco,      turned backwards, in the Palace Museum, Beijing,            included in the exhibition Gilded Dragons, British
1977, pl. LXXII.                                            illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures in      Museum, London, 1999, cat. no. 23.
                                                            the Palace Museum. Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995,
57                                                          pl. 80; another included in the exhibition Chinese          77
                                                            Jade: An Important Private Collection, Spink & Son
A WHITE JADE ‘CHILONG’                                      Ltd., London, 1991, cat. no. 153; and a slightly larger     A CELADON AND BROWN
‘SHE’-SHAPED PENDANT                                        example included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition         JADE ‘LION AND CUB’ GROUP
QING DYNASTY, 18TH                                          Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of          17TH CENTURY
CENTURY                                                     Art, Hong Kong, 1992, cat. no. 240.
                                                                                                                        A similar jade lion group is illustrated in Brian Morgan,
The form of this pendant is based on Eastern Han            66                                                          Dr Newton’s Zoo: A Study of Post-Archaic Small Jade
prototypes, such as one included in the Oriental Ceramic                                                                Carvings, London, 1981, pl. 24.
Society of Hong Kong exhibition Art & Imitation in          A WHITE JADE ‘DUCK AND
China, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong          LOTUS’ CARVING
Kong, Hong Kong, 2006, cat. no. 13.                         QING DYNASTY, 18TH
                                                            CENTURY

61                                                          A similarly carved jade duck was included in the
                                                            exhibition, Chinese Jade: An Important Private Collection,
A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE                                   Spink & Son Ltd., London, 1991, cat. no. 151.
‘DRAGON’
QING DYNASTY                                                68

Figures of dragons seated on their haunches were            A PALE CELADON JADE ‘BIRD
popular from the Yuan period, such as one illustrated       AND PRUNUS’ PENDANT
in Brian Morgan, Naturalism & Archaism: Chinese Jades       17TH/18TH CENTURY
from the Kirknorton Collection, London, 1995, pl. 57; and
another of slightly larger size, included in the Oriental   Carvings of birds modelled in this pose were made
Ceramic Society of Hong Kong exhibition Art &               from the Tang dynasty onwards, such as one included
Imitation in China, University Museum and Art Gallery       in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Chinese
at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2006,            Jade throughout the Ages, Victoria and Albert Museum,
cat. no. 41.                                                London, 1975, cat. no. 233; and another illustrated in
                                                            John Johnston and Chan Lai Pik, 5000 Years of Chinese
                                                            Jade, San Antonio, Texas, 2011, pl. 49.

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