YUAN-MING DYNASTY (1279-1644)

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A WHITE JADE CARVING OF A FOREIGNER AND BUDDHIST LION
YUAN-MING DYNASTY (1279-1644)
The foreigner is carved with curly hair and bulging eyes, and shown tussling with a Buddhist lion over a brocade ball. The stone is of even white tone.
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) high

Provenance

Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 27 August 1990.
The LJZ Collection, United States.

Literature

A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 74-75, no. 32.

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Lot Essay

A slightly smaller (5.9 cm.) white jade carving depicting a related subject of a foreigner holding a brocade ball and seated next to small lion is illustrated in Jade Wares Collected by Tianjin Museum, Beijing, 2012, p. 170, no. 152, where it is dated Jin-Yuan.

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