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A PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A BIXIE, HAN DYNASTY
奥地利
06月27日 下午5点 开拍
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A PALE CELADON JADE FIGURE OF A BIXIE, HAN DYNASTY

China, 206 BC-220 AD. The mythical beast in an aggressive stance ready to pounce, with its head turned left and jaws wide open, the muscular body framed by a pair of wings and with a curled tail. The semi-translucent stone is of a pale celadon tone with yellowish highlights, cloudy white inclusions, and surface alterations.

Provenance: From the Sam and Myrna Myers Collection. Sam and Myrna are first generation Americans, who shared a taste for collecting beautiful objects of art. On a trip to Ascona, Switzerland, the couple stumbled into a small antique shop which started their journey of collecting antiques. When Sam Myers was sent to Paris by his law firm in the mid-1960s, he and his wife Myrna became so enamored with the city that they decided to make it their home. There, over the course of 50 years, they built an extraordinary art collection, and in 1976, Myrna opened a gallery in Paris specializing in Asian art. Their collection spans a wide range of precious objects from Chinese jades, ceramics, textiles, Indian ivory carvings, to Japanese clothing and lacquer, some of which was exhibited in the Kimbell Art Museum. Part of their collection was sold at Sotheby’s, London ‘Two Americans in Paris, The Collection of Sam and Myrna Myers’, on 4 November 2021. The couple also worked together with jade expert Filippo Salviati to create one of the most outstanding jade collections globally and authored several books on jade, including ‘Radiant Stones’ (2000), ‘The Language of Adornment’ (2002) and ‘Genèse de l’empire céleste’ (2020).
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, a minuscule chip to one claw and the mouth, signs of weathering and erosion, and soil encrustations. The stone with natural fissures, some of which have developed into hairline cracks.

Weight: 272.8 g
Dimensions: Length 9.5 cm

Literature comparison:
A closely related carved jade bixie, also dated to the Han dynasty in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (I), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 240-241, no. 201.

Auction result comparison:
Type: Related
Auction: Christie’s Hong Kong, 9 July 2020, lot 2867
Price: HKD 1,000,000 or approx. EUR 124,000 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing
Description: A rare jade bixie, Han dynasty (206 BC-AD 220)
Expert remark: Compare the related subject, posture, color of the jade, and fine incision work. Note the smaller size (8.2 cm).

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拍品估价:5,000 - 10,000 欧元 起拍价格:5,000 欧元  买家佣金: 35.00%

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