A RARE PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A TRIBUTE BEARER PRESENTING A JADE BOULDER

Lot 812
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Lot 812 | A RARE PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A TRIBUTE BEARER PRESENTING A JADE BOULDER
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A RARE PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND RUSSET JADE FIGURE OF A TRIBUTE BEARER PRESENTING A JADE BOULDER

SOUTHERN SONG-MING DYNASTY (1279-1644)

The tribute bearer is carved as a Central Asian figure with both hands grasping an oval boulder. He wears a voluminous cloak clasped at the throat and hoop earrings, and his coiffure of stylized curls is bound with a fillet. The stone is of pale greenish-white tone with a few areas of russet on the sleeves and to the reverse.

3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high, metal stand, cloth box





Provenance

Professor Cheng Te-k'un (1908-2001), The Mu-Fei Collection, Cambridge, England.

Bluett & Sons, London, 31 December 1990.

The LJZ Collection, United States.



Literature

J. Ayers and J. Rawson, "Chinese Jade throughout the Ages," Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, vol. 40, 1975, no. 219.

J. C. Y. Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, New York, 1980, p. 34, no. 1.

B. Morgan and Wu Hung, Chinese Jades from the Mu-Fei Collection, London, 1990, no. 41.

A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 50-51, no. 20.



Exhibited

London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Chinese Jade throughout the Ages, 1 May-22 June 1975.

New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, Fall 1980.

London, Bluett & Sons Ltd., Chinese Jades from the Mu-Fei Collection, 1990.

The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006.
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