Lot 110: FIVE ARCHAISTIC JADE AND HARDSTONE ANIMAL CARVINGS Late Qing Dynasty

FIVE ARCHAISTIC JADE AND HARDSTONE ANIMAL CARVINGS

Late Qing Dynasty

The tiger carved in a rectangular form, its legs tucked under, eyes alert, ears surmounting the head, the mouth perforated for stringing, the stone reddish-brown and lightly polished; the smaller tiger of elongated body resting in a similar pose, drilled between the paws for stringing, the celadon stone stained russet brown in areas; the horse rolled on the ground with head turns back, the celadon stone stained black in areas; the mythical beast simply carved in a recumbent pose with its head raised, the bushy tail swept on its haunch, the celadon stone stained black in areas; the recumbent cat with a kitten on the back, the gray stone with russet inclusions. (5)


Brown tiger: 3in (7.6cm) long;
Green tiger: 2 3/8in (6cm) long;
Horse: 2in (5.2cm) long;
Mythical beast: 2in (5.1cm) long;
Cat and kitten: 1 3/4in (4.5cm) long

清末 仿古玉石擺飾 虎 玉馬 神獸 子母貓 共五件



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Yamanaka & Company, New York

Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 18 December 1911

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1911-present




來源：

紐約山中商會

Samuel T. Peters 贈，1911 年 12 月 18 日

大都會藝術博物館，1911 年迄今



The present horse, with two hindlegs raised in the air, compares closely to the celadon jade horse in the Brundage Collection, illustrated by Knight, Li and Tse Bartholomew,
Chinese Jades: Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century, From the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 2007, p. 69, no. 38, described as 17th century.

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