M5651
£8,500
Description
Chinese pale celadon jade carving of a standing boy, beside a younger boy clambering with the help of his brother’s arms onto a large round drum raised on a stand, the taller boy holding a music stone in his right hand.
2 1/8 inches, 5.3 cm high.
Qianlong, 1736-1795.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the collection of R.H.R. Palmer.
- A similar jade carving was included by Marchant in their 70th Anniversary Exhibition of Post-Archaic Chinese Jades, 1995, no. 69, p. 55; another from the collection of Edward T. Chow is illustrated by Frank Dunand in One Man’s Taste: Treasures from the Lakeside Pavilion, Geneva 1988, no. J16.
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