Lot 3082
3082
A PALE CELADON JADE CARVING OF A BITTER MELON
PROPERTY FROM THE HOSOKAWA FAMILY COLLECTION
A PALE CELADON JADE CARVING OF A BITTER MELON

QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

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A PALE CELADON JADE CARVING OF A BITTER MELON
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
The carving is formed as three bitter melons of various sizes borne on leafy tendrils. The skin of the melons is delicately carved to simulate their uneven rind.
4 3⁄8 in. (11 cm. long), Japanese wood box
Literature
Hosokawa Morisada, Ittokutoku, 1982, no. 102
Exhibited
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Kōga na bunjin no sekai : Min Shin no kaiga to shoseki bunbōgu I (The Exhibition of Hosokawa Morisada Collection), 9 October-8 November 1992, Catalogue no. 123

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Lot Essay

Compare to a slightly larger Qing dynasty white jade carving of bitter melon (12.3 cm.) in the National Palace Museum collection, illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Jade in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1976, no. 32.

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