QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A RETICULATED CIRCULAR POMANDER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Formed by two fitted circular sections, each of the slightly domed exterior finely carved in openwwork to depict children accompanied by two ladies against fretwork ground within an interlinked cash-symbol ground, the semi-translucent stone of even white tone
3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm.) diam.

Provenance

The Collection of Professor Phillip Cloake

Exhibited

London, Post-Archaic Chinese Jades from Private Collections, S. Marchant & Son, 2000, p. 54, no. 34

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Lot Essay

Compare the present lot with three openwork finely carved examples: the first two illustrated by J. Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 1989, nos. 86 and 87; and the third from the Alan and Simon Hartman Collection, illustrated by R. Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 84.

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