A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A BIXIE MING – QING DYNASTY |

Estimate

150,000 - 200,000 HKD

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Description

9.7 cm, 3 7/8 in.

the recumbent beast with legs tucked underneath and head turned to one side, the face with large round eyes and flaring nostrils below a pair of striated horns, worked with a knobby spine terminating in a bushy combed tail, the stone of a pale celadon tone with russet flecks

Provenance

Alvin Lo Oriental Art Ltd, New York, 2001.

Exhibited

Alvin Lo Oriental Art Limited, Auspicious Jade Animals, New York, 2001, cat. no. 14.

Literature

Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 156.