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AN UNUSUAL GREYISH-WHITE AND BROWN JADE GROUP OF LIU HAI AND HIS TOAD
17TH/18TH CENTURY
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AN UNUSUAL GREYISH-WHITE AND BROWN JADE GROUP OF LIU HAI AND HIS TOAD
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The group is well carved as the immortal Liu Hai wearing loosely draped robes seated on an outcropping of rock. In his left hand he holds a sprig of lingzhi, and in his raised right hand a cash to tempt his three-legged toad seated at the end of the outcropping. There are brown veins and markings in the greyish-white stone.
6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) long, wood stand, box
17TH/18TH CENTURY
The group is well carved as the immortal Liu Hai wearing loosely draped robes seated on an outcropping of rock. In his left hand he holds a sprig of lingzhi, and in his raised right hand a cash to tempt his three-legged toad seated at the end of the outcropping. There are brown veins and markings in the greyish-white stone.
6¾ in. (17.2 cm.) long, wood stand, box
Provenance
Gurie Gallery, Montreal, Canada, 1962.
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