
Michael Hughes
Vice President and Head of Department
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Vice President and Head of Department
十八世紀 玉雕東方朔像
A very similar carving in white jade and dated to the Qianlong period, depicting the same historical figure with a huge peach spray weighing-down across his shoulder and with a large straw hat hanging on his back, is illustrated by Knapton Rasti, Asian Art, London, 2002, p. 52, no. 82, where the authors cite, James C.Y. Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, p. 119, pl. 101, where the figure is described as Tung-Fang Shuo (Dongfang Shuo) an historical figure from the court of the Emperor Wu-ti (Wudi) in the Western Han period, and often represented stealing the peaches of Immortality.
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