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A RARE WHITE JADE BELT HOOK
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Elaborately carved and pierced on the top with a large bat and a smaller butterfly biting at leafy tendrils, the terminal in the form of an opening peony bud, and the knop on the underside shaped as a flowerhead on a dense ground of curly leaves and branches, the semi-translucent stone of creamy-white tone
4 1/2 in. (11.3 cm.) long
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Elaborately carved and pierced on the top with a large bat and a smaller butterfly biting at leafy tendrils, the terminal in the form of an opening peony bud, and the knop on the underside shaped as a flowerhead on a dense ground of curly leaves and branches, the semi-translucent stone of creamy-white tone
4 1/2 in. (11.3 cm.) long
Provenance
Christie's London, 4 April 1979, lot 70
Literature
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 158
Exhibited
Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004