A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE 'BUDDHIST LIONS' CARVING
清十八世紀 青白玉佛獅

A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE 'BUDDHIST LIONS' CARVING

Qing Dynasty, 18th Century

清十八世紀 青白玉佛獅

Carved as a large lion and her cub, each with a bushy eyebrows over bulbous eyes and a broad snout, the curling mane with tufts of fur running down the powerful body set with powerful haunches, the larger beast clutching a ball incised with cash symbols, carved from a stone of pale celadon tone suffused with snowflake and russet inclusions

11.6cm long

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PROVENANCE:

French Private Collection

法國私人收藏

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NOTE:

Compare a related 'lions' carving, dated 18th century, sold at Christie's Paris 6 Jul 2022, lot 109; another at Christie's Hong Kong, 31 May 2010, lot 2112; and another carving at Christie's New York, 25 Mar 2022, lot 1247. Also see a related carving from the Roger Keverne sale at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 04 October 2016, lot 75.

A similar example from the Avery Brundage collection, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, was included in the exhibition 'Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing', The Asia House Gallery, New York, 1980, cat. no. 54. Compare also a jade carving of a lion and its cub, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Yang Boda, 'Chinese Jades Throughout the Ages', Hong Kong, 1997, pl. 54.