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Ming/early Qing Dynasty
The pebble carved in low relief as a phoenix turning its head backward, detailed with rounded eyes, beak and plumage, with the legs tucked beneath the body and the flamboyant tail curling around, pierced at an end with two apertures for hanging, the stone of mottled white and reddish-brown tone. 8cm (3 1/8in) long.
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明/清早期 玉鳳凰鎮紙
The pose of the present lot with head folded backward and resting on its back echoes the pose of some earlier pieces of the Song and Ming dynasties. See a yellow and brown jade carving of a bird with a similar pose, late Song/early Ming dynasty, illustrated by J.Watt, in Chinese Jades From Han to Ch'ing, New York, 1980, p.96, no.81.
See a related white, russet, and brown jade carving of a bird, 18th century, which was sold at Christie's New York, 23 March 2012, lot 1853.