A WHITE JADE POMEGRANATE BOX AND COVER

Previously sold at Christie's New York, 2 December 1985, lot 313.

Compare with a very similar peach box and cover with interlocking branches joining the two halves in the Victoria and Albert Museum illustrated by M. Wilson, Chinese Jades, London, 2004, p. 56, no. 58 where the author notes that this group of carvings is very impressive from a technical point of view because of the great precision it would have involved for the two halves of the box to fit together so perfectly. Another very similar pomegranate box with a small insect resting on the cover in the collection of the Seattle Art Museum is illustrated by J. Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1989, p. 99, no. 78.