QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A VERY RARE WHITE JADE WASHER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The vase is intricately carved in openwork with a bird perched on luxuriant branches of begonia emerging from the interior of the irregular-shaped shallow bowl naturalistically formed as a tree trunk, beside a further sprig of prunus. The semi-translucent stone is of an even creamy white tone.
6 7/8 in. (17.4 cm.) long, stand, box

Provenance

Sold at Christie's New York, 10 December 1987, lot 79
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2006, lot 1377

Literature

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 94

Exhibited

Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 to December 2004

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Lot Essay

The present lot is carved from stone of exceptionally fine quality and of a remarkably good 'mutton fat' white tone.

A lotus vase carved in a very similar style was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, Catalogue no. 408. Two other vases with similar openwork carvings of birds and flowers in the Capital Museum are illustrated in Jade, Gems of Beijing Cultural Relics Series, Beijing, 2002, pp. 214-215, pls. 263-264.

Compare also a washer dating to the 17th century in the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, illustrated in Spinach Green and Mutton-fat White: Chinese Jades of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Florida, 2006, p. 22.

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