Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 07 october 2015
A yellow jade recumbent lion, Song to Ming dynasty
Lot 3772. A yellow jade recumbent lion, Song to Ming dynasty; 6.2 cm., 2 3/8 in. Estimate 380,000 — 480,000 HKD. Sold for 812,500 HKD (93,402 EUR). Photo Sotheby's
well worked in the round as a recumbent lion with its head turned backwards and legs tucked beneath its body, depicted with well-defined claws and a ribbed spine terminating in a bushy tail flicked over its hind haunch, the yellow stone with russet inclusions and veining.
Provenance: Collection of James William and Marilyn Alsdorf, Chicago.
Sotheby's Chicago, 12th April 1999, lot 606.
S. Marchant and Son, London, 2000.
Collection of O.J.R. Allen.
Exhibited: 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Post-Archaic Chinese Jades from Private Collections, S. Marchant and Son, London, 2000, cat. no. 74.
Chinese Jades from the Mr O.J.R. Allen Collection, S. Marchant and Son, London, 2013, cat. no. 10.