Lot 830
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A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A BOY WITH A DRUM
A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A BOY WITH A DRUM
A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A BOY WITH A DRUM
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A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A BOY WITH A DRUM

18TH CENTURY

Details
A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A BOY WITH A DRUM
18TH CENTURY
The figure is shown seated next to a drum detailed with bosses and holding a ruyi scepter, and wearing voluminous robes that falls in ripples to the underside. The even white stone is accented with sparse russet highlights.
2 ½ in. (6.4 cm.) wide
Provenance
Chung Wah Pui, The Hei-Chi Collection, Hong Kong.
Anthony Carter, London, 5 January 2007.
The LJZ Collection, United States.
Literature
Ip Yee, Chinese Jade Carving, Hong Kong, 1983, pp. 192-93, no. 175.
Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection, Beijing, 2006, p. 189.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 88-89, no. 38.
Exhibited
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Jade Carving, 21 October-24 December 1983.

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Lot Essay

The drum symbolizes strength and the motif of boys playing drums, which was popular throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties, represents the wish for many sons. In jade carvings, it is common to see the theme depicted as one boy and one drum, as in the present figure, or as two boys beating on the same drum.

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