huit sujets animaliers en jade Chine, dynastie Qing, XIXE siècle

comprenant un chien allongé, un enfant lisant un parchemin assis sur un buffle, deux béliers, deux lions shizi, deux qilin et un buffle couché

Lü Xiaguang (1906-1994)

All generally overall in fair condition with the exception of natural inclusions or small chips. The two rams in front with a tiny chip to one hoof, the reclining dog has an old chip to the tip-end of his left forepaw, a vein inclusion towards the back, the white buffalo and boy has a tiny flake/inclusion below its right eye, the green qilin to the right of the image with the front of the base chipped and tiny nicks to the edges, the smaller white qilin twoard the center with a few nicks to the edges, otherwise in good condition, the reclining buffalo in the center with tiny nicks to the hooves and surface dirt in the interstice, the white qilin carrying a boy the the left with chips behind the ears of the animal, a nick to the ear of the boy, few natural inclusions and nick to the edges, the celadon reclining lion with some line inclusions, pitting and small natural calcified areas.
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