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Lot 166

A white jade carving of two boys with a drum
18th century

8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A white jade carving of two boys with a drum

18th century
The even white stone finely carved as a drum flanked by two smiling boys, the larger boy holding a ruyi sceptre in his left hand and a ribbon in the other, the smaller boy holding drumsticks, wood stand.
4cm (1½in) high (2).

Footnotes

十八世紀 白玉雕雙童擊鼓

Compare a related white jade boy beating a drum, Qing dynasty, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (II), Beijing, 2008, pl.136.

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