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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CALIFORNIA FAMILY COLLECTIONCelebrating marriages across the centuries and oceans: a long journey from Shanghai to Hong Kong to Taipei to HollywoodThis stunning white jade marriage bowl has been an heirloom of a family, native to the Shanghai region, for generations. In twentieth century, the bowl journeyed to the port city of Hong Kong before sailing across the South China Sea to Taiwan, as one of the family’s most prized personal possessions. A few years later, the only son of the family left Asia to enroll as a college student in Los Angeles, California. Between his studies, he patronized a family-owned Chinese restaurant near downtown Los Angeles, whose distinctive architecture, modeled after the real Shanghai, perhaps reminded him of home. There he was introduced to the family’s youngest daughter. In due course their engagement was announced, and the jade bowl made another long journey, this time carried across the Pacific Ocean to arrive at the fiancée's family compound in the Hollywood Hills. Far from its first home in China, the jade bowl again fulfilled the purpose for which it was originally carved centuries ago: to celebrate the joyous occasion of a wedding. Since then, the jade marriage bowl has been treasured in the same private family collection in southern California for more than half a century.
清乾隆 白玉雕五福捧壽紋龍耳活環洗
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
細節
清乾隆 白玉雕五福捧壽紋龍耳活環洗
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) wide across handles, zitan stand
10 ¼ in. (26 cm.) wide across handles, zitan stand
來源
Acquired in the early 20th century, and thence by descent within the family.
榮譽呈獻
Olivia Hamilton