HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Day
HOTUNG | 何東 The Personal Collection of the late Sir Joseph Hotung | Part II: Day
Auction Closed
December 8, 05:58 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A small jade reptile, Shang dynasty
商 玉鰐
carved from a thin slice of grey-green jade with notches to suggest the horns, eyes and limbs of a lizard, tapering to a pointed tail
Length 6.8 cm, 2⅝ in.
Collection of Mr and Mrs Richard C. Bull.
Sotheby's New York, 6th December 1983, lot 126.
Richard C. Bull 伉儷收藏
紐約蘇富比1983年12月6日,編號126
Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 12:19
羅森,《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》, 倫敦,1995年,圖版12:19