QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)

Details

A SPINACH-GREEN JADE ‘DRAGON’ SEAL
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
5 1/16 in. (12.8 cm.) square, wood stand, box

Provenance

An English private collection, by repute
Sold by S. Marchant & Son, London, 23 September 1998
Marchant & Son, London, 2010

Literature

Marchant & Son, London, 85th Anniversary Exhibition of Chinese Jades from Tang to Qing, 2010, Catalogue no. 15

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Lot Essay

The seal face is uncarved. Compare to two Qianlong emperor’s spinach-green jade seals that have inscriptions to both seal face and the sides, surmounted by the same double-dragon finial as present seal, both preserved in the Taipei National Palace Museum, and exhibited in the special exhibition and illustrated by Feng Ming-chu, Emperor Chi’ien-lung’s Grand Cultural Enterprise, Taipei, 2002, p.38, pls. I-20 and I-21 (fig. 1 & fig. 2).

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