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

Lot 244

A LARGE WHITE JADE 'CRANE' GROUP, QING DYNASTY, 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTUR Y
Estimate: 80,000 - 120,000 USD

A LARGE WHITE JADE 'CRANE' GROUP
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY
清十八 / 十九世紀初 白玉雕松鶴延年擺件

well modeled in the form of a large crane grasping a lingzhi sprig between its beak and standing on one leg beside a smaller crane,
the birds with finely incised wing and tail feathers, all set on a rockwork ground with a gnarled pine tree, the smoothly polished
stone of an even color with occasional russet specks

Height 7¼ in., 18.5 cm

Provenance
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Catalogue Note
Impressively carved in the round to depict two cranes with lingzhi and a pine tree, this carving portrays the wish for longevity. A
related carving of two cranes, supported by pierced lingzhi sprays, in the Alan and Simone Hartman Collection, was published in
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 197, where it is noted that ‘the
combination of stylised bird within a natural setting is typical of carving mannerisms of the first part of the eighteenth century’.

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