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拍品專文
Openwork small containers of this type were popular accessories at the Qing Court, and would have been used for diffusing perfume or fragrance from flowers and herbs. Examples can be found in various luxury materials, such the gold filigree examples illustrated in Collected by The Palace Museum: Jewelry and Accessories of the Royal Consorts of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1992, pp. 135-138, nos. 311-21. The delicate openwork of these containers would have been easier to craft from gold than to carve from jade, perhaps making jade examples more precious. Two green jade pouches are illustrated ibid., p. 134, nos. 309 and 310.