十七世紀 白玉雙鹿靈芝擺件

finely carved as a pair of recumbent deer with legs neatly tucked beneath their bodies and heads turned toward each other, lying amid large craggy rocks, depicted grasping a long curling leafy lingzhi stem in their mouths, the edges of their tails and ears delicately incised with tufts of hair, the softly polished white stone of an even colour

There is some minor nicks to the surface, otherwise the carving is in overall good condition.
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此品依玉材長形巧製，雙鹿口銜靈芝，相偎對望，情境諧和，甚為獨特。祥鹿意寓長壽，據傳，靈芝仙物，僅靈鹿可尋得，故造像多口銜靈芝 。

比較一稍小玉雕鹿，載於Roger Keverne，《Jade》，倫敦，1991年，頁141，圖版33。另見一例，無石景雕飾，載於《故宮博物院藏品大系‧玉器編：明》，卷6，北京，2011年，圖版244。再有一例，售於紐約蘇富比1983年2月25日，編號255。