CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME-XVIIIEME SIECLE

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BOITE COUVERTE EN JADE JAUNE
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIEME-XVIIIEME SIECLE
De forme circulaire, le couvercle est délicatement sculpté de fruits de litchi émergeant des feuillages luxuriants.
Diamètre: 6 cm. (2 3/8 in.)

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Further details

A YELLOW JADE 'LYCHEE' BOX AND COVER
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

Comparable jade ‘lychee’ boxes and covers of similar form and decoration, but without Zigang marks, include one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Chinese Jades, London, 2004, p. 62, fig. 66; and another illustrated by James Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing, New York, 1980, p 139, fig. 115.
See a closely related white jade 'lychee' box and cover, from the same period, sold in Christie's Hong Kong, 30 November 2016, lot 3446.

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