HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Day
HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Day
A jade recumbent horse, Tang-Liao dynasty | 唐至遼 玉馬
Auction Closed
December 8, 05:58 PM GMT
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A jade recumbent horse, Tang-Liao dynasty
唐至遼 玉馬
unusually carved with simple linear outlines and angular shapes, the stone of a grey-white tone, pierced with a hole through the centre of the animal's back for suspension or fastening as a toggle
Length 4.7 cm, 1⅞ in.
Luen Chai Curios, Hong Kong, 1st February 1988.
聯齋古玩號，香港，1988年2月1日
Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 26:8.
羅森，《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，圖版26:8
Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 73.
《Chinese Jade Animals》，香港藝術館，香港，1996年，編號73