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A WHITE AND BLACK JADE FIGURE OF A DUCK HAN DYNASTY
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 HKD
bidding is closed
Description
- jade
- 7.1 cm, 2 3/4 in.
carved with its head facing forward, detailed with round eyes and stylised wings and tail, the base with a circular dent, the smoothly polished stone with black inclusions
Provenance
Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers, acquired in July 1974.
Sotheby's New York, 18th/19th March 2014, lot 162.
Sotheby's New York, 18th/19th March 2014, lot 162.
Catalogue Note
Related white and black jade figures of birds attributed to the Han dynasty, include two from the Avery Brundage Collection and now preserved in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, illustrated in René Yvon Lefebvre d'Argencé, Chinese Jades in The Avery Brundage Collection, Tokyo, 1977, pl. XXIV.