Provenance:
– The Raymond Oppenheimer Collection
– Bluett & Sons, London, 1965, purchased for £45
– The Collection of Anthony du Boulay, acquired 7 Dec 1965
Published:
The Oriental Ceramic Society, ‘Chinese Jade throughout the Ages’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1975, no. 245, p.82
Exhibited:
The Oriental Ceramic Society, ‘Chinese Jade throughoutthe Ages’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1975
Finely carved as a recumbent hound with its head resting on its extended fore-paws. The body finely carved to show the outline and details of the animal, with a short, bushy tail, the underside of the legs finished flat. The stone of a pale celadon tone with minor russet inclusions.
Compare a similar carving of a yellowish-green reclining dog, with brown markings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession number A.70-1936, illustrated in Ming Wilson, ‘Chinese Jades’, no. 76 and exhibited in the Oriental Ceramic Society, ‘Chinese Jade throughout the Ages’, 1975, no. 250.
A pale celadon jade carving of a recumbent dog with fitted wood stand (Song/early Yuan dynasty)
£ 96,000.00
Description
宋 960-1279 青白玉卧犬
Dimensions: 8.5cm long
Provenance:
– The Raymond Oppenheimer Collection
– Bluett & Sons, London, 1965, purchased for £45
– The Collection of Anthony du Boulay, acquired 7 Dec 1965
Published:
The Oriental Ceramic Society, ‘Chinese Jade throughout the Ages’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1975, no. 245, p.82
Exhibited:
The Oriental Ceramic Society, ‘Chinese Jade throughoutthe Ages’, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1975
Finely carved as a recumbent hound with its head resting on its extended fore-paws. The body finely carved to show the outline and details of the animal, with a short, bushy tail, the underside of the legs finished flat. The stone of a pale celadon tone with minor russet inclusions.
Compare a similar carving of a yellowish-green reclining dog, with brown markings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession number A.70-1936, illustrated in Ming Wilson, ‘Chinese Jades’, no. 76 and exhibited in the Oriental Ceramic Society, ‘Chinese Jade throughout the Ages’, 1975, no. 250.
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