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A WHITE JADE 'LION' GROUP SONG – MING DYNASTY
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 HKD
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Description
- jade
the recumbent beast depicted with the head raised in alert, the front paw resting on its young beside, the lions detailed with furrowed eyebrows and rounded eyes beneath a long bushy mane, the stone of an even white tone
Catalogue Note
The rendering of the eyes and the snout of the present piece share close similarities to a Liao-Jin dynasty example of similar subject in the Tianjin City Art Museum, illustrated in Tianjin shi yishu bowuguan cang yu [Tianjin City Art Museum. Jade], Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 177.