A YELLOW JADE ‘BOY AND DEER’ GROUP LATE MING / EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

the attractive yellow and russet-brown stone smoothly polished and worked in the form of a recumbent deer with legs tucked tightly underneath the body, its head turned sharply backwards towards a boy clambering on its back, the cheerful boy grasping the left antler of the deer, the stone of a yellow tone with russet markings, wood stand

Collection of Gerald Godfrey.
Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th October 1995, lot 889.

Stones of Virtue: Chinese Jades from the Gerald Godfrey Collection, The Dayton Art Institute, Ohio, 1989, cat. no. 181.

Overall good condition. The catalogue illustration is paler than the actual colour.
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