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A WHITE JADE WINECUP
A WHITE JADE WINECUP

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A WHITE JADE WINECUP
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

The deep cup with thin walls, carved in shallow relief around the exterior with two birds perched on a flowering prunus tree below scrolling clouds, and a later added poetic inscription below a band enclosing bats and clouds under the mouth rim, the translucent white stone with areas of opaque inclusions, the base with an apocryphal Qianlong Yuzhi mark
2 3/4 in. (7 cm.) high
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Please note that this lot was purchased in 1974 from William Clayton of Bury Street, St James's, London.