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A MINIATURE WHITE JADE SEATED FIGURE OF A ‘ZODIAC’
ARCHER WITH PIGS HEAD
18th Century
The attractive semi-opaque milky-white stone modelled as a seated pig
wearing voluminously-sleeved robes and holding a bow in his real left
which extends out to the reverse side and holding an arrow in his raised
right hand, the carving continuing to the underside.
1 1/4in (3.2cm) high

$4,500 - 6,500
十八世紀 白玉豬首執弓箭者

Provenance
Roger Keverne, London

來源
Roger Keverne, 倫敦

For an almost identical figure, both in modelling and size, from the Qing
Court Collection, see Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji
(Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Jadeware III,
Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 132-133, no. 111, it forms part of a set of twelve
depicting Zodiac figures.

Another white jade pig archer from a zodiac group but of larger size (2
1/4 inches high), see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection
of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, pp.232-233, no. 182.

Lot 41 (Three views)
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