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AN EXTREMELY RARE YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A MYTHICAL BEAST,
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AN EXTREMELY RARE YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A MYTHICAL BEAST
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AN EXTREMELY RARE YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A MYTHICAL BEAST

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Last recorded sale at Sotheby's, Hong Kong (03 Apr 2019)
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ImageSale dateAuction houseLocationSale nameLot No.EstimatePrice SoldConditionTitle
Apr 3, 2019
Sotheby'sHong KongThe Robert Youngman Collection of Chinese Jade II3405
$****** - ******
AN EXTREMELY RARE YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A MYTHICAL BEAST
Artwork Description
Category

other

Dimensions

7.5 cm (2.95 in)

Provenance

Collection of Wilfred Fleisher, Stockholm.

Eskenazi Ltd, London.

Collection of J.M.A. Dawson, London.

Collection of Hugh Moss, Hong Kong.

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 1999.

Exhibited

Celadon-Jade, National Museum, Stockholm, 1963, cat. no. 65.

Jessica Rawson and John Ayers, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1975, cat. no. 186.

Chinese Jades from a Private Collection, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1976, cat. no. 7.

Chinese Works of Art from the Collection of J.M.A. Dawson, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1980, cat. no. 44.

Eskenazi: Twenty-five Years, Eskenazi Ltd., London, 1985, cat. no. 18.

Gerard Tsang and Hugh Moss, Arts from the Scholar's Studio, Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1986, cat. no. 179.

Sydney S.K. Fung and Yeung Chun-tong, Exquisite Jade Carving: Figures, Animals, Ornaments, University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1996, cat. no. 66 and cover.

Ancient China, Jades, Bronzes & Ceramics, J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 1999, cat. no. 23.

Literature

Desmond Gure, Selected Examples from the Jade Exhibition at Stockholm, Stockholm, 1963, pl. 13, no. 2.

'A Comprehensive Study', Bulletin of the Museum of Far East Antiques, Stockholm, 1964, vol. 36, pl. 13, no. 2.

Na Zhiliang, Yuqi cidian [Dictionary of Chinese Jade], Taipei, 1982, p. 72, no. 0533.

Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 140.

Giuseppe Eskenazi in collaboration with Hajni Elias, A Dealer's Hand: The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe Eskenazi, London, 2012, Chinese version, Shanghai, 2015, p.236, pl. 153.

Description

superbly and powerfully worked as a snarling lion or chimera crouching with the body slightly turned to the left, the mythical beast rendered ferocious with the head held high above the protruding chest marked with a series of horizontal folds, the mouth rendered opened and baring its teeth and fangs, below circular irises enclosed within lozenge-shaped eyes, the nostrils, thick eyebrows and flattened ears accentuated with scrolling motifs repeated along the shoulders and flanks of the muscular body, the spine further depicted with a gently raised ridge highlighted with fine incisions and terminating in a bifurcated tail, the stone of a warm celadon-yellow colour with extenstive russet patches

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