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

Lot 223

A CELADON AND BROWN JADE CARVING OF A HORSE, YUAN / MING DYNASTY
Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 USD

A CELADON AND BROWN JADE CARVING OF A HORSE
YUAN / MING DYNASTY
元 / 明 青玉雕臥馬擺件

skillfully worked in the form of a recumbent horse turning its head backwards to rest on the rounded back, the front legs curled up
and the hind hooves tucked beneath its body, the mane finely detailed with incised lines, the tail swept to the side and resting
against its haunch, the creamy celadon stone veined in beige spreading into a dark brown skin on one side

Length 4¾ in., 12 cm

Provenance
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 28th-29th March 1951, lot 162.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
Parke-Bernet Galleries，紐約，1951年3月28至29日，編號162
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Exhibition
The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, A Loan Exhibition Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum from Collections in America, the
Orient and Europe, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, 1957, cat. no. 284.

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