R1360
£19,500
Description
Chinese pale celadon and mottled jade box, deeply carved as a finger citron with high relief branches, leaves and smaller finger citron, attached with an integral loose ring between openwork gnarled branches.
4 ¾ inches, 12cm long.
Early Qianlong, circa 1750.
Condition
Fine condition.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Sold by William Clayton, Bury Street, 4th October 1948.
- From the Collection of Richard Edmund Relfe Luff, CBE (1887-1969).
- Sold by Bluett & Son to Luff on the 13th October 1948.
- Bluett & Son, 1970.
- This box is a tour de force of the jade carver’s school. Although the jade is mottled, they have brilliantly managed to work the material to form this finger citron box. The genius of the single ring attaching both parts is something that has always marvelled the handler.
Similar Items
M5822
£16,500Chinese jade black and white openwork pendant carved with a large black cicada, a pair of open-winged butterflies and a silkworm, amongst fruiting and leafy mulberry branches.
1 ¾ inches, 4.5 cm.
18th/19th century, circa 1800.
M5126
£14,000Chinese seven-colour glass overlay snuff bottle, superbly decorated with a large turquoise lotus leaf enveloping a pink lotus flower, carved on the exterior with a lotus pod, leaves, shoots and a brown leaf, together with a black crab, the footrim formed as a branch.
Rose quartz stopper.
2 11/16, 6.9 cm high without stopper.
1840-1900.
SBhorse
£16,500A Chinese pale celadon and russet jade carving of a recumbent horse with head turned back and left leg raised with detailed carving to the hooves and hair work to the tail and plaited mane.
2 1/2 inches, 6.35 cm.
Ming/Qing dynasty, 17th/18th century.
