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Property from an American private collector
AN UNUSUAL EMBELLISHED JADEITE PEACH-FORM BOX AND COVER
Details
AN UNUSUAL EMBELLISHED JADEITE PEACH-FORM BOX AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Worked in relief as two peaches growing on a leafy branch, inlaid with tourmaline flowers, a ruby matrix bud, two coral bats and a citrine quartz butterfly, the interior, sides and base incised with twigs, buds and leaves with traces of lacquer inlay, the stone of an apple green tone
3¼ in. (8.4 cm.) wide
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Worked in relief as two peaches growing on a leafy branch, inlaid with tourmaline flowers, a ruby matrix bud, two coral bats and a citrine quartz butterfly, the interior, sides and base incised with twigs, buds and leaves with traces of lacquer inlay, the stone of an apple green tone
3¼ in. (8.4 cm.) wide
Provenance
Oriental Art Gallery, London, June 1993, no. 18