AN IMPERIAL CARVED SPINACH-GREEN JADE CUPSTAND
AN IMPERIAL CARVED SPINACH-GREEN JADE CUPSTAND

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AN IMPERIAL CARVED SPINACH-GREEN JADE CUPSTAND
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The cupstand is carved as a double-lotus pedestal encircled on the top by a ring of rounded petals, atop a saucer of rectangular section with rounded corners, well carved in high relief on the interior with two dragons in pursuit of 'flaming pearls', the flat everted rim with a key-fret band
6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm.) across, stand

Lot Essay

Two almost identical cupstands in spinach-green jade are published: one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, with a two-handled dragon cup, is illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, vol. 6, pls. 30-32 and again in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, no. 20; and the other was included in the 75th Anniversary Exhibition of Post-Archaic Chinese Jades from Private Collections, S. Marchant & Son, London, 2000, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 8.

Other related stands carved in white jade are known, one from the Sammy Chow collection, included in the exhibition Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 146; one from the Gerald Godfrey collection sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1995, lot 909; and another sold in these Rooms, The Imperial Sale, 29 April 2001, lot 538.

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