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A pale green jade horse and monkey group 17th/18th century
16 May 2019, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £6,312.50 inc. premium
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A pale green jade horse and monkey group
17th/18th century
Well carved as a recumbent horse with the legs neatly folded and tucked underneath the body, its head with finely-incised mane swayed to its left, a monkey precariously clambering over its left haunch, the stone of a white tone, wood stand.
8.5cm (3 3/8in) wide (2).
Well carved as a recumbent horse with the legs neatly folded and tucked underneath the body, its head with finely-incised mane swayed to its left, a monkey precariously clambering over its left haunch, the stone of a white tone, wood stand.
8.5cm (3 3/8in) wide (2).
Footnotes
十七/十八世紀 青白玉馬上封侯把件
Provenance: a Scottish private collection
來源:蘇格蘭私人收藏
The monkey (hou 猴), is a homophone for 'marquis' (hou 侯), which on top of a horse (mashang 馬上), also meaning 'quickly', is a rebus for 'quick ennoblement' or rising quickly up the ladder of success in one's career.
Compare with a related pale green jade carving of a horse and monkey, 18th century, which was sold at Sotheby's New York, 19 March 2019, lot 201.
























