Lot Essay
Compare a similar quail box illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji; Qing (The Great Treasury of Chinese Jade; Qing), Hebei, 1991, vol. 6, p. 69, no. 106 and a pair formerly in the collection of T.Y. Chao illustrated by R. Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 196.