CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

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ANIMAL MYTHIQUE QILIN EN JADE CELADON PALE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
Représenté assis, les pattes arrières repliées, les pattes avant tendues, la tête de la chimère légèrement tournée vers la gauche, parée de deux cornes, deux ailes finement sculptées s'élevant de part et d'autre des flancs de l'animal, la queue enroulée, la mâchoire ouverte laissant paraître les crocs et enserrant un branchage feuillagé de lingzhi déployé sur le poitrail
Hauteur: 11,7 cm. (4 5/8 in.)

Literature

Michael C. Hughes, Chinese Jades and Works of Art, New York 2003, pl.9

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A RARE PALE CELADON JADE MYTHICAL WINGED BEAST QILIN
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Lot Essay

This type of winged jade beasts are taken from ancient jades from the Ming dynasty or even earlier. They have became more elaborated and executed in very good colour and quality jades during the Qianlong period.
A small winged crouching Qilin from the Ming Dynasty is illustrated in Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1996, pl.144 ;
A similarly carved beast bearing a vase, from the Qianlong period, is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and illustrated in G. Wills, Jade of the East, New York 1972, pl.86

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