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Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:30 AM EDT

Lot 258

A PALE GRAY JADE 'MYTHICAL BEAST' GROUP, SONG - MING DYNASTY
Estimate: 80,000 - 120,000 USD

A PALE GRAY JADE 'MYTHICAL BEAST' GROUP
SONG - MING DYNASTY
宋至明 青玉雕瑞獸擺件

well carved in the form of a large beast crouching with its head turned back, detailed with a broad snout, protruding eyes, and a
single horn flanked by a pair of pointy back-swept ears, its ridged spine extending to a bifurcated tail curled under the
outstretched right rear leg, with a similarly rendered cub nestling beside, the stone of a grayish-celadon tone with some calcified
areas and natural inclusions

Length 3⅝ in., 9.2 cm

Provenance
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978), acquired prior to 1963.

來源
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏，購於1963年之前

Literature
Alfred Salmony, Chinese Jade Through the Wei Dynasty, New York, 1963, pl. XLIV-2.

出版

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