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PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF ROBERT P. YOUNGMAN
A CELADON JADE 'PHOENIX' CARVING
17th/18th centuryFinely carved in the form of a recumbent phoenix, the long curling crest feathers extending down the neck, the head turned over its back, grasping a branch bearing two ripe peaches in its beak, the upper wings each decorated in low-relief with a scrolling archaistic dragon above the long pointed pennaceous feathers, the tips resting on base of the curling tail feathers, the underside carved with the tucked legs, the whole comforming to the outline of the pebble, the pale green stone with a lustrous finish and opaque white inclusions.4 3/8in (11.1cm) long
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十七/十八世紀 青玉雕臥鳳獻桃把件PROVENANCEThe Peking Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 11th February 1974Robert P. YoungmanSotheby's, The Robert Youngman Collection of Chinese Jade, 3 April 2019, lot 213來源The Peking Gallery，加拿大多倫多，1974年2月11日羅伯特．楊門珍藏蘇富比香港，楊門中國玉器珍藏，2019年4月3日，拍品編號213A similar 17th/18th century carving of a phoenix grasping a peach branch from the Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Collection was sold at Christie's New York, 19th March 2015, lot 622, having previously been sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 20 May 1981, lot 888. A related Ming dynasty carving of a phoenix grasping bamboo in its beak was sold in Sotheby's, New York, 22 April 1974, lot 19. Another 17th century example, carved as a water-dropper, was sold at Sotheby's, London, 'Menagerie, An English Private Collection of Chinese Animal Carvings', 10 May 2017, lot 6.For two phoenix carvings dating to the Qianlong period and carved in a more fastidious fashion with a more regimented, design rather than the freedom of our slightly earlier example, see Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, p.250 and p.252, no's 199 and 201. The first of these, no. 199, was later sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 8 October 2019, lot 3666.
