
Michael Hughes
Vice President and Head of Department
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Vice President and Head of Department
十八世紀 壽山石雕李白像
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Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York
來源
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, 紐約
Another figure in a darker red soapstone but again depicting the drunken poet Li Bai, was sold at Christie's, New York, 'Lacquer, Jade, Bronze, Ink -The Irving Collection, Part II, 21 March 2019, lot 1184. Another example, also from the Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, sold at Sotheby's, New York, 'Property from the Collection of Marion and Henry Bloch', 24 June 2020, lot 1045; and another sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 2-3 June 2016, lot 281.
For a figure in the Qing Court Collection, of slightly smaller-size and carved from jade, see Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Jadeware III, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 124, no. 104. Another soapstone recumbent figure described as a 'big-bag mendicant, is illustrated Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji (Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum) Inscriptions and Sculptures, Hong Kong, 2008, p. 218, no. 204.
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