QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A RARE WHITE JADE RETICULATED THUMBRING
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Finely carved and pierced as a chilong and its young among a dense network of overlapping lingzhi branches, their sinuous bodies weaving in and out of the curling stems and ending in bifurcated tails, the jade stone of an even white tone
7/8 in. (2.3 cm) wide

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Lot Essay

Compare with a very similar reticulated white jade archer's ring in the Seattle Art Museum, illustrated by James Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1989, p. 105, no. 89.

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