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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN
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PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A ZOOMORPHIC ARCHER
Liao Dynasty or later
The hare-headed archer kneeling on one leg and holding a fully drawn
archer’s bow across its body and firing along its right shoulder and extended
right arm, the head with long ears drawn back and centered by a tuft that
reaches to the neck.
1 3/8in (3.5cm) high
$2,500 - 3,500

遼或更晚 青白玉神獸射箭把件

Provenance
Robert P. Youngman Collection
Anunt Hengtrakul, New York

Published
Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from the
Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 100
Sotheby’s, The Robert Youngman Collection of Chinese Jade, 3 April 2019,
lot 3430

來源
羅伯特·楊門珍藏
Anunt Hengtrakul, 紐約

出版
羅伯特·楊門，《楊門藏玉：中國玉器．新石器時代至清代》，芝加
哥，2008年，圖版100
蘇富比香港，楊門中國玉器珍藏，2019年4月3日，拍品編號3430

For other Liao examples of animals and other zomorphic figures, see Jades
from China, The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1994, no’s 213-217. For a
carved figure of an aspara bearing stylistic similarities, see Zhongguo meishu
quanji: Gongyi meishu bian, yuqi, Vol. 9, Beijing, 1997, no. 244.

See Zhongguo qiqi quanji, Fujian, 1998, Vol. 3, cat. no 108 for images of
zoomorphic figures engaged in hunts painted on lacquer-painted funerary
furniture from the Western Zhou tomb at Mawangdui of Lady Dai (ca. 213-
163 BCE). Such images from the Warring States and Han Dynasty periods
were appropriated over time as this later jade attests too.

Lot 19 (Two views)

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