18TH CENTURY

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A YELLOW AND BROWN JADE PURSE-FORM POMANDER
18TH CENTURY
Of flattened semi-circular form, each side naturalistically carved in shallow relief with grooves to imitate the pleats of a silk purse, tightly gathered at the short neck, and pierced with a pair of holes for attachment, further detailed with insects in flight above flowers, the cover similarly carved with matching grooves, the underside with two apertures for fastening of the silk cord to the receptacle, all tied by an ivory oviform toggle
3½ in. (9 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

An earlier example of this form carved of pale yellow-brown jade is illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade, From the Neolithic to the Qing, British Museum Press, 1995, fig. 25:33, which is dated to the Ming period.

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