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A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 1
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 2
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 3
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 4
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 5
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 6
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 7
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 8
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 9
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 10
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 11
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 12
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 13
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 14
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 15
A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group 18th Century image 16
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Lot 40

A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group
18th Century

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A superb miniature white jade 'Boy on elephant' group

18th Century
Carved from the finest white jade of luminescent quality and high polish, depicting a boy clambering on the back of small wrinkly elephant with head turned to it's left side, the boy holding a ruyi scepter, his hair tied in neat buns and the ribboned belt of his robes falling down the elephants back to the tail.
1 5/8in (4.2cm) high

Footnotes

十八世紀 白玉雕童子騎象把件

For a much larger celadon and russet jade carving of a boy holding a ruyi scepter whilst clambering on the back of an elephant in the Qing Court Collection, 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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PLEASE NOTE: The dateline should read: "Qing Dynasty or later" and NOT ""18th Century".

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