A YELLOW JADE 'DRAGON' PLAQUE SONG DYNASTY |

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 HKD

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Description

9.3 cm, 3 5/8 in.

of flattened form, dramatically rendered as a dragon prowling sinuously with the horned head sharply turned backwards, the body adorned with scrollwork and meanders echoing the undulating outline of the plaque, the stone of a beige-yellow colour with brown speckles

Provenance

J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 1989.

Literature

Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008, pl. 57.