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Lot 202*
A white jade 'boy and drum' group Song/Yuan Dynasty
16 May 2019, 10:30 BST
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A white jade 'boy and drum' group
Song/Yuan Dynasty
Finely carved as a recumbent boy, lying in a relaxed posture wearing a short tunic, his head raised and his face rendered with a cheerful expression, holding between his outstretched arms a drum, the stone of even greenish-white tone with russet inclusions cleverly utilised to accentuate the forehead, box.
6cm (2 3/8) wide (2).
Finely carved as a recumbent boy, lying in a relaxed posture wearing a short tunic, his head raised and his face rendered with a cheerful expression, holding between his outstretched arms a drum, the stone of even greenish-white tone with russet inclusions cleverly utilised to accentuate the forehead, box.
6cm (2 3/8) wide (2).
Footnotes
宋/元 白玉雕童子抱鼓
Provenance: Christie's Paris, 11 June 2014, lot 150
Durwin Tang Collection
來源:巴黎佳士得,2014年6月11日,拍品編號150
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Early figures in jade with such design are very rare. Compare a later example, with a boy leaning against a drum, Ming dynasty, illustrated in Exquisite Jade Carving, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1996, no.21, which was later sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2008, lot 2303.
