18TH-19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE 'BITTER MELON' BOX AND COVER
18TH-19TH CENTURY
Well carved as a bitter melon, the two halves are linked by two sections of the leafy gnarled vine that continues onto the underside of the box and onto the cover where a beetle has alighted.
3 ½ in. (9 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Jade interlocking stem boxes are more commonly found in the form of a pomegranate or a peach. A pomegranate-form interlocking jade box dated to the Qianlong period is illustrated in Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Art Museum, 1989, p. 99, no. 78. For another example in the form of a peach, see R. Keverne, Jade, New York, 1991, p. 152, figs. 61 and 62.

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