A WHITE JADE POMEGRANATE BOX AND COVER

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A WHITE JADE POMEGRANATE BOX AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The rounded fruit formed from a single pebble, carved to the exterior in openwork with two leafy branches extending around the sides and interlocking to form a hinge, the cover further carved in relief with a small cicada seated to one side above the large flowerhead straddling the box and cover, the stone of an even white tone with small russet and opaque inclusions

3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) long

出版

Roger Keverne (ed.), Jade, London, 1991, p. 152, fig. 61 and 62
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 86

展覽

Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003-December 2004

拍品專文

Previously sold at Christie's New York, 2 December 1985, lot 313.

Compare with a very similar peach box and cover with interlocking branches joining the two halves in the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by M. Wilson, Chinese Jades, London, 2004, p. 56, no. 58 where the author notes that this group of carvings is very impressive from a technical point of view because of the great precision it would have involved for the two halves of the box to fit together so perfectly. Another very similar pomegranate box with a small insect resting on the cover in the collection of the Seattle Art Museum is illustrated by J. Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1989, p. 99, no. 78.

拍品專文

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