- 3432
A GREY JADE FIGURE OF A DEER YUAN – MING DYNASTY |
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 HKD
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Description
- 7.2 cm, 2 7/8 in.
well worked in the round as a recumbent deer with the head held high and legs neatly folded beneath the body, rendered with an alert expression below a pair of openwork horns issuing from the top of its head and extending towards its curved rump, the rounded body terminating with a short tail at the rear, the stone of a grey colour with extensive greyish-black patches
Provenance
Acquired in New York.
Literature
Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 104.
Catalogue Note
For another example of a somewhat similar deer see Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, p. 370, no. 26:13.