Sale 2388
Hong Kong
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27 November 2007
Price realised
HKD 1,207,500
Estimate
A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE GROUP OF A STAG AND A DOG QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) Attractively carved in the round, the recumbent stag with its head turned to one side, bearing a spray of lingzhi in its mouth on its back rests a small dog, the stone of even white tone with areas of russet inclusions and a fine polish 3¼ in. (8.4 cm.) long
Provenance
Mary Alexander Whitehouse Sotheby's Hong Kong, 17 November 1988, lot 403
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Literature
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no.192
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