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Lot Essay
The current jade carving bears a morally didactic message, as it eulogises the importance of filial piety by depicting a character from a Chinese folk tale. According to this story, a boy named Zhou Yanzi wears a deer skin in order to join a deer herd and obtain milk from a deer to cure his father's illness.
Compare the present lot to a related figure of Zhou Yanzi illustrated in Post-Archaic Chinese Jades from Private Collections, S. Marchant and Son, London, 2000, cat. no. 23; and another sold at Sotheby's London, 7 December 1993, lot 92. Also see a similar carving depicting Zhou Yanzi wearing a deer skin but also holding a bucket for milk, sold at Sotheby's New York, 31 March 2005, lot 57.
Compare the present lot to a related figure of Zhou Yanzi illustrated in Post-Archaic Chinese Jades from Private Collections, S. Marchant and Son, London, 2000, cat. no. 23; and another sold at Sotheby's London, 7 December 1993, lot 92. Also see a similar carving depicting Zhou Yanzi wearing a deer skin but also holding a bucket for milk, sold at Sotheby's New York, 31 March 2005, lot 57.