
Michael Hughes
Vice President and Head of Department
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Vice President and Head of Department
十七/十八世紀 青玉雕臥鳳獻桃把件
PROVENANCE
The Peking Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 11th February 1974
Robert P. Youngman
Sotheby's, The Robert Youngman Collection of Chinese Jade, 3 April 2019, lot 213
來源
The Peking Gallery,加拿大多倫多,1974年2月11日
羅伯特.楊門珍藏
蘇富比香港,楊門中國玉器珍藏,2019年4月3日,拍品編號213
A similar 17th/18th century carving of a phoenix grasping a peach branch from the Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Collection was sold at Christie's New York, 19th March 2015, lot 622, having previously been sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 20 May 1981, lot 888. A related Ming dynasty carving of a phoenix grasping bamboo in its beak was sold in Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 1974, lot 19. Another 17th century example, carved as a water-dropper, was sold at Sotheby's, London, 'Menagerie, An English Private Collection of Chinese Animal Carvings', 10 May 2017, lot 6.
For two phoenix carvings dating to the Qianlong period and carved in a more fastidious fashion with a more regimented, design rather than the freedom of our slightly earlier example, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, p.250 and p.252, no's 199 and 201. The first of these, no. 199, was later sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 8 October 2019, lot 3666.
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Please note the correct provenance from Sotheby's should be: Sotheby's, New York, The Robert Youngman Collection of Chinese Jade, 19 March 2019, lot 213 蘇富比紐約,楊門中國藏玉,2019年3月19日,拍品編號213