A spinach green jade 'pine' double vase 18th century
A spinach-green jade 'pine' triple vase
18th century
Carved from a somewhat black-flecked spinach-green stone as three hollow tree trunks with the shortest one issuing lingzhi sprays, the other two with curling pine, prunus and bamboo branches, wood stand.
8.8cm (3½in) high (2).
Estimate:
£8,000 - 12,000
HK$ 95,000 - 140,000
CNY 75,000 - 110,000

Footnotes

  • Provenance: Jade House, Hong Kong, purchased on 5 April 1962
    A Canadian private collection

    十八世紀 碧玉雕松竹梅紋樹樁形三孔花插

    來源: 於1962年4月5日購自香港Jade House
    加拿大私人收藏

    Compare a related spinach-jade 'pine' double vase, dated to the Qianlong period, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 8 Qing Dynasty, Beijing and Hefei, 2011, pl.185.

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The Property of a Gentleman 紳士藏品

Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art


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