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

Lot 228

A SUPE RB YELLOW RUSSET JADE CARVING OF AN EGRET, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PE RIOD
Estimate: 50,000 - 70,000 USD

A SUPERB YELLOW RUSSET JADE CARVING OF AN EGRET
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
清乾隆 黃玉雕一路連科把件

well carved, recumbent with its head turned to the back grasping a lotus sprig in its beak, finely detailed with its three-taloned feet
folded neatly under its body, the wings and tail feathers delicately defined with short incisions, with swirling waves on its left side
accentuated with two leaping fish, the softly polished stone of an attractive greenish-yellow tone with areas of pale sugar-brown
coloration

Length 2⅞ in., 7.3 cm

Provenance
Nagatani, Inc., Chicago, 1st February 1946.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
Nagatani，Inc.，芝加哥，1946年2月1日
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Catalogue Note

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