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A SMALL WHITE JADE BOY ON AN INGOT
KANGXI

Carved in the round with the small boy wearing a bib and holding fly whisk in one hand and a ruyi in the other, wearing wrist and ankle bracelets and striding atop an ingot, the stone of even tone with fibrous inclusions and a smooth polish
2 1/4in. (5.7cm.) high, box
Exhibited
Pacific Asia Museum, 1986, Catalogue, no. 207
San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
The Dayton Art Institute, 1989, no. 382

Lot Essay

Rawson in her volume, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to Qing, discusses this group of carvings of young boys with large rounded heads and hair tied in bunches behind each ear and compares them with stylistically similar 17th century bronze weights, no. 27:2 and 3.

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