A PALE GREEN JADE CARVED 'BOY AND FLOWER VASE' GROUP17th century Deftly carved as a standing boy clad in loose flowing robes, the hair tied into a bun atop his large head, holding a large meiping vase incised with cracked-ice-pattern containing branches of blossoming prunus, the stone of pale green tone. 6.5cm (2 1/2in) high.Footnotes十七世紀 青白玉雕吉祥童子 A popular auspicious motif since the Song dynasty, 'Boys at play' or 'hundred boys' commonly depicts one or several groups of boys playing various games including playing with animals and imitating adult literati's activities, such as flower arrangement. This lot and lot xxx xxx xxx, may belong to the same theme of 'boys at play'. Compare with a related but later pale green and russet jade carving of a boy holding a vase, Qing dynasty, illustrated in The Woolf Collection of Chinese Jade, London, 2013, p.192. Another related jade carving of a boy holding a lotus, early Qing dynasty, is illustrated by T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang Collection of Jade, Hong Kong, 2011, p.104, no.90. 玉質白中閃青，立體圓雕一童子，臉形渾圓，頭束髮髻，眼角細長，嘴角微頷笑意，身穿束腰外袍，下著寬褲，體態飽滿。其左手捧持花瓶，瓶身陰刻冰裂紋，瓶口上方鏤雕梅花。「瓶」音同「平」，意謂平安，寓意吉祥。
A PALE GREEN JADE CARVED 'BOY AND FLOWER VASE' GROUP17th century Deftly carved as a standing boy clad in loose flowing robes, the hair tied into a bun atop his large head, holding a large meiping vase incised with cracked-ice-pattern containing branches of blossoming prunus, the stone of pale green tone. 6.5cm (2 1/2in) high.Footnotes十七世紀 青白玉雕吉祥童子 A popular auspicious motif since the Song dynasty, 'Boys at play' or 'hundred boys' commonly depicts one or several groups of boys playing various games including playing with animals and imitating adult literati's activities, such as flower arrangement. This lot and lot xxx xxx xxx, may belong to the same theme of 'boys at play'. Compare with a related but later pale green and russet jade carving of a boy holding a vase, Qing dynasty, illustrated in The Woolf Collection of Chinese Jade, London, 2013, p.192. Another related jade carving of a boy holding a lotus, early Qing dynasty, is illustrated by T.Fok, The Splendour of Jade: The Songzhutang Collection of Jade, Hong Kong, 2011, p.104, no.90. 玉質白中閃青，立體圓雕一童子，臉形渾圓，頭束髮髻，眼角細長，嘴角微頷笑意，身穿束腰外袍，下著寬褲，體態飽滿。其左手捧持花瓶，瓶身陰刻冰裂紋，瓶口上方鏤雕梅花。「瓶」音同「平」，意謂平安，寓意吉祥。
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