ID 1007282
Lot 830 | A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A BOY WITH A DRUM
Estimate value
$ 80 000 – 120 000
18TH CENTURY
The figure is shown seated next to a drum detailed with bosses and holding a ruyi scepter, and wearing voluminous robes that falls in ripples to the underside. The even white stone is accented with sparse russet highlights.
2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.) wide
Provenance
Chung Wah Pui, The Hei-Chi Collection, Hong Kong.
Anthony Carter, London, 5 January 2007.
The LJZ Collection, United States.
Literature
Ip Yee, Chinese Jade Carving, Hong Kong, 1983, pp. 192-93, no. 175.
Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection, Beijing, 2006, p. 189.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 88-89, no. 38.
Exhibited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Jade Carving, 21 October-24 December 1983.
| Medium: | Jade, Precious stones |
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| Historical era: | Liao dynasty, Qing Dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Jade, Precious stones |
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| Historical era: | Liao dynasty, Qing Dynasty |
| Place of origin: | China, Eastern Asia, Asia |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
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