18TH CENTURY

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A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE CYLINDRICAL PARFUMIER
18TH CENTURY
The thick sides deeply carved and pierced with three immortals carrying auspicious objects including a branch of finger citron, a peach, and a chrysanthemum and basket of peaches through a wooded, rocky landscape on their way to a pavilion on an upper ledge, with some areas of pale buff color, the sides of the green jade base and cover carved with key fret, and the top of the cover pierced with a shou medallion
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high, wood stand

Provenance

Property from a Canadian Collection; Christie's, New York, 29 November 1990, lot 326.

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Lot Essay

A pair of similar, though slightly larger (24.7 cm.) white jade parfumiers with green jade ends, also carved with figures in landscapes, was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 7 July 2003, lot 753, where they were dated to the 18th century. See, also, two related white jade parfumiers in the Qing Court collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, nos. 36 and 37, where they are dated to the Qianlong period.

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