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Lot 573

A PALE CELADON JADE BOX AND COVER
18th/19th century

18 March 2019, 10:00 EDT
New York

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A PALE CELADON JADE BOX AND COVER

18th/19th century
Of compressed globular form with thin walls, carved in crisp low relief across the cover with a central flower head surrounded by four stylized flowering branches, the conforming box raised on a broad foot with upright sides, the recessed base bearing a six-character Qianlong mark carved in standard script and filled with gilt lacquer, the pale gray-green stone showing some cloudy white and isolated russet inclusions.
5 5/8in (14.1cm) diam. (2).

Footnotes

十八/十九世紀 青白玉雕花卉紋圓蓋盒

Provenance:
Dr. Dean Edell
Sotheby's, New York, 17 April 1985, lot 285

Published:
Christopher Randall, The Brush & the Stone: Chinese Jades, Snuff Bottles and Works of Art from the Collection of Dr. Dean Edell, Hong Kong, 1998, No. 5, pp. 7-8

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