A RARE SMALL PALE GREENISH-GREY JADE FIGURE OF BODHIDHARMA

SONG/MING DYNASTY (960-1644)

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A RARE SMALL PALE GREENISH-GREY JADE FIGURE OF BODHIDHARMA
SONG/MING DYNASTY (960-1644)
The figure is finely carved standing with body swayed slightly to one side and head turned, his crossed arms hidden within the long folds of his layered robes, his face carved with intense expression and curly beard, his long hair falling in a line of curls on his shoulders. The figure is vertically pierced. The translucent greenish-grey stone has some russet and opaque white inclusions.
2 in. (5.1 cm.) high, stand

Provenance

Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 1990.
Dr. Leonard and Mrs. Ann Marsak Collection.

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Lot Essay

Compare the similar small (5.4 cm.) jade figural pendant of a man with a mustache and a beard, , also depicted with crossed arms hidden within the sleeves of his long robe, and also with a cylindrical, vertical channel for stringing, dated Song dynasty, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 41 - Jadeware (II), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 100, no. 87.

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