Lot Essay
By tradition, purchased from Prince Tuan during the Boxer Rebellion
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AN UNUSUAL HARDSTONE-SET JADE MANDARIN-DUCK CONTAINER AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
The pale celadon jade vigorously carved to depict the bird swimming on breaking waves, its head turned slightly to the right and holding a fruiting and flowering leafy stem in its beak, inset all over with turquoise, tourmaline, serpentine, jadeite, sapphire matrix, agate and lapis lazuli depicting details of fish, water fowl, water plants and bats, the oval cover with flower-head finial--10¼in. (26cm.) long, wood stand
18TH CENTURY
The pale celadon jade vigorously carved to depict the bird swimming on breaking waves, its head turned slightly to the right and holding a fruiting and flowering leafy stem in its beak, inset all over with turquoise, tourmaline, serpentine, jadeite, sapphire matrix, agate and lapis lazuli depicting details of fish, water fowl, water plants and bats, the oval cover with flower-head finial--10¼in. (26cm.) long, wood stand