A FINE WHITE JADE TEA POT AND COVER
A FINE WHITE JADE TEA POT AND COVER

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A FINE WHITE JADE TEA POT AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The elegantly shaped globular body carved with the 'Three Friends of Winter', pine, bamboo and prunus, the curved spout with a classic scroll decoration, the domed cover surmounted by a floral finial, the semi-translucent stone of an even cool tone
8 in. (20 cm.) across, box

Lot Essay

An 18th-century celadon jade teapot of this shape carved with more stylised butterflies and classic scrolls, is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, Vol. 6, Beijing, 1991, pl. 1; and another with a Daoguang yuyong mark (For the Imperial Use of the Emperor Daoguang), is illustrated ibid., pls. 8 and 9. Jade ewers of different forms are also illustrated ibid., pls. 2-7.

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