QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

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A PAIR OF KESI POUCH-SHAPED PURSES
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Each pouch well worked with a bat suspending a beribboned musical stone flanked by ruyi clouds, all above the gold-couched auspicious characters, wan fu and wan shou, prosperity and longevity, encircled by overlapping ruyi and wave borders, the straps with stained bone clasps
5 in. (12.7 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Previously sold at Christies's Hong Kong, 1 May 2000, lot 825

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Lot Essay

These pouches or purses would have been hung with the top loop strap from a belt, as part of the decoration of a formal or ceremonial court belt. Adornments that hung from such belts could include a knife, compass, toothpick case, matchbox and other personal paraphernalia. Examples of court belts with these hanging pouches are found in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Costume Accessories, Taipei, 1986, nos. 32 and 33.

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