Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
A BROWN JADE SEATED WINGED FIGURE YUAN DYNASTY | 元 玉神獸
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November 6, 06:16 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
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ARCHAIC AND ARCHAISTIC JADES FROM THE MICHAEL GULBENKIAN COLLECTION
MICHAEL GULBENKIAN玉器收藏
A BROWN JADE SEATED WINGED FIGURE
YUAN DYNASTY
元 玉神獸
the rotund figure seated cross legged with hands held together at the chest, the back carved with a ribbed backbone and a pair of elaborate wings folding over the shoulders, the face with two large bulging eyes and a short beard, wearing a cap pierced for suspension, the mottled stone with brown and russet tones
Height 5.5 cm, 2¼ in.
Tony Carter Ltd., London, 1980's.
於上世紀80年代購自倫敦Tony Carter Ltd.
Jades From China. The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, 1994, cat. no. 275.
《Jades From China》，東亞藝術博物館，巴斯，1994年，編號275
For a stylistically similar figure of Garuda, on the south front of the arch on the white marble Cloud Platform of the Juyongguan Section of the Great Wall near Beijing, dated to 1345, see J.M Addis, Chinese Ceramics from Datable Tombs, 1978, p.43.