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Jade foreign merchant.
A white and russet group of a seated bearded foreign merchant wearing long flowing robes covering his head, the robes with ripple design, the figure holding up a ball above a playful lion, the left hand open palmed, the stone with deep and russet patches.
China: Ming dynasty (1368–1644).
Provenance: The Songzhutang Collection.
The Philip Cardeiro Collection.
Published: Knapton Rasti Asian Art, November 2009: The Property of Mr Philip Cardeiro, no. 48.
For a similar jade group previously in the Gerald Godfrey collection see Foster, Suzanne Haney, Chinese Jade: The Image from Within, p. 78, no. 170 and 171; also illustrated in Palm Springs Desert Museum, Magic, Art and Order: Jade in Chinese Culture, p. 110, nos. 113 and 114; another from the Mu-Fei collection similar in Hansford, S. Howard, Chinese Carved Jades, fig. 68; and a further group in Ching Ta Chuang and Nien Sheng Tang, Antique Jade Collections, p. 85, no. 103.
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Height: 5.7 cmThe BADA Standard
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