Lot Essay
Watt notes that this iconography, a flying figure of a boy with a scarf on clouds, is a Yuan transformation of a Liao-Jin image which is continued into the Ming Dynasty
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A RARE WHITE JADE CARVING OF A 'FLYING' BOY
YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY
Carved from a stone of flecked white tone with russet veining as a boy wearing bracelets and anklets, his hair tied in two topknots, his head with a billowing scarf with one end held in his hands, the other tucked between his feet, the reverse with cloud swirls suggesting flight--3 5/8in. (9.8cm.) long
YUAN-EARLY MING DYNASTY
Carved from a stone of flecked white tone with russet veining as a boy wearing bracelets and anklets, his hair tied in two topknots, his head with a billowing scarf with one end held in his hands, the other tucked between his feet, the reverse with cloud swirls suggesting flight--3 5/8in. (9.8cm.) long
Literature
James Watt, op. cit., no. 99