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A Pale celadon-White and russet Jade 'elephant and Hehe Erxian' group 17th/18th Century image 1
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Lot 32

A Pale celadon-White and russet Jade 'elephant and Hehe Erxian' group
17th/18th Century

15 March 2021, 10:00 EDT
New York

US$15,000 - US$20,000

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A Pale celadon-White and russet Jade 'elephant and Hehe Erxian' group

17th/18th Century
Carved from a vertical trapazoidal shaped pebble with a wrinkled old elephant with long tusks and head bowed to one side and wearing a fringed lotus blanket over his back which is surmounted by the laughing twins, Hehe Erxian, one holding a circular box, the other a lotus stem and clambering either side of tripod censer and cover ding, the toes and underside of the feet well delineated, the attractive stone with areas of skin and inclusions highlighting the scene; with a stepped stand.
3 1/2in (9cm) high

Footnotes

十七/十八世紀 青白玉帶皮太平有象把件

PROVENANCE
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1981

來源
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, 紐約,1981年

For another celadon and russet jade carving of the same subject but of larger size, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, p.220, no. 170. Like ours, a vessel is carved atop the blanket which centers the elephant's back and the boys clamber to the sides.For a slightly later white jade boy and elephant group, see Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Jadeware III, Hong Kong, 1995, p.117, no. 97.

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