Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

A BLUE GLASS 'GRAPE' PENDANT Qing Dynasty image 1
A BLUE GLASS 'GRAPE' PENDANT Qing Dynasty image 2
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 紳士藏品
Lot 141

A BLUE GLASS 'GRAPE' PENDANT
Qing Dynasty

15 May 2025, 11:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £2,304 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

A BLUE GLASS 'GRAPE' PENDANT

Qing Dynasty
The blue glass pendant cut in the form of a bunch of ripe grapes against a large leaf incised with veins, hung from a green chord attached to a white jade cylinder with bosses, and a walnut carving of a monkey with finely incised hair, terminating in two spherical bone pendants. Overall 21cm (8 1/4in) long.

Footnotes

清 藍料葡萄形墜

Provenance: a Scottish private collection

來源:蘇格蘭私人收藏

Such pendants were used as toggles in one's sash to carry tobacco pouches or small pill or seal boxes. Compare with a related tourmaline carving of grapes and squirrel, Qing dynasty, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Gugong zhenbao, Beijing, 2004, p.124. The walnut carving of a monkey on the present lot is particularly fine. See a group of walnut carvings of boats, animals and flower baskets, Qing dynasty, illustrated in A Garland of Treasures: Masterpieces of Precious Crafts in the Museum Collection, Taipei, 2016, pp.120-121.

Additional information

Bid now on these items

A pair of celadon saucer dishes with Jingwei tang zhi hall marks 18th/19th century

TRÈS RARE ET BELLE ASSIETTE EN LAQUE SCULPTÉE Marque et époque Jiajing (1522-1566)