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

Lot 232

A LARGE PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE 'BUD DHIST LION' GROUP, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG
PE RIOD
Estimate: 80,000 - 120,000 USD

A LARGE PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE 'BUDDHIST LION' GROUP
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
清乾隆 青白玉雕太獅少獅戲繡球擺件

well carved with a large recumbent lion, its head turned sharply to the left, detailed with large rounded eyes framed by finely
incised bushy brows above a ruyi-shaped snout, the broad mouth agape with the ribbon of a floral brocade ball between its teeth,
its mane detailed with rows of tight ringlets, overlapping tufts of hair extending down the gently curved spine, terminating in a full
bushy tail pricked up to rest against its haunch, with a small, similarly carved cub clambering up its back, the whitish green stone
enhanced with russet staining

Width 5¾ in., 14.7 cm

Provenance
Nathan Bentz & Co., San Francisco, circa 1946.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
Nathan Bentz & Co.，舊金山，約1946年
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

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