A pale green jade 'boy and lotus' group


Song/Yuan Dynasty or laterFinely carved as a boy with a cheerful expression, crouching besides a flowering lotus pod with clusters of lotus leaves, his left hand holding lotus stalks of leafy lotus, pierced with a vertical hole, the attractive stone of even white tone with russet skin, box. 3.3cm (1 1/4in) wide (2).
|宋/元或以後 白玉雕童子持蓮Provenance:Christie's Paris, 11 June 2014, lot 152 (part lot)Durwin Tang Collection來源：佳士得巴黎，2014年6月11日，拍品編號152（之一）鄧德雍收藏Compare with a related half-standing jade figure holding a lotus, Song dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 5 Tang, Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan Dynasties, Beijing, 2011, p.103, no.104.持蓮蹲坐的玉雕童子像並不多見，可比較北京故宮藏一件玉雕半蹲持蓮童子，見《故宮博物院藏品大系：玉器篇》，卷五，北京，2011年，頁103，編號104。