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拍品 946PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CALIFORNIA FAMILY COLLECTION
Celebrating marriages across the centuries and oceans: a long journey from Shanghai to Hong Kong to Taipei to Hollywood
This 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.
Celebrating marriages across the centuries and oceans: a long journey from Shanghai to Hong Kong to Taipei to Hollywood
This 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.
A WELL-CARVED WHITE JADE MARRIAGE BOWL
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
已结束2018年9月13日
成交价
USD 588,500