A LARGE YELLOW JADE 'BIRD' FINIAL SONG DYNASTY |

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 HKD

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Description

9 cm, 3 1/2 in.

depicted standing and clutching the base with its feet, the rounded head of the bird, possibly a dove, portrayed with a short beak and circular eyes, the body flanked by a pair of wings worked in the Han badao technique below the elongated tail, the hollow base of the finial pierced with an aperture, the stone of a mottled celadon colour with darker inclusions

Provenance

Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth (1929-2014), New York.

Literature

Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 80.