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Lot 40 (Two views)

PROPERTY OF AN ENGLISH LADY
40
A SUPERB MINIATURE WHITE JADE ‘BOY ON
ELEPHANT’ GROUP
18th Century
Carved from the finest white jade of luminescent quality and high
polish, depicting a boy clambering on the back of small wrinkly
elephant with head turned to it’s left side, the boy holding a ruyi
scepter, his hair tied in neat buns and the ribboned belt of his robes
falling down the elephants back to the tail.
1 5/8in (4.2cm) high

$4,500 - 6,500

十八世紀 白玉雕童子騎象把件

For a much larger celadon and russet jade carving of a boy holding a
ruyi scepter whilst clambering on the back of an elephant in the Qing
Court Collection, see Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji
(Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Jadeware III,
Hong Kong, 1995, p. 117, no. 97.

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