19TH CENTURY

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A WHITE JADE CIRCULAR RETICULATED POMANDER
19TH CENTURY
One half is carved in openwork with a scene of a scholar accompanied by two attendants in a landscape of rocks and leafy, flowering branches, and the other half with five boys at play amidst foliate scroll in the center surrounded by a partial circular border and composite foliate scroll.
2 1/8 in. (5.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Acquired in Washington D.C., in the early 1970s.

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Lot Essay

Two small pierced pomanders, or boxes, of this type are illustrated by Chan Lai Pik in Chinese Jades: The Dr. S.Y. Kwan Collection, Art Museum, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012, nos. 351 and 352, where they are dated to the Qing dynasty.

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