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A WHITE JADE FINGER CITRON CARVING A FINE YELLOW JADE CARVING OF A HORSE AND MONKEY
18th/19th century 18th century
Deftly carved as a larger and smaller finger citron fruit borne on a Crisply carved as a recumbent horse, the head turned sharply to the
gnarled branch, the side with an auspicious bat, the stone of pale left with finely-incised mane and hair along the ridge of the spine, a
white tone with light brown highlights, 8.5cm (3 3/8in) high; together mischievous monkey clambering up the tail and rear, the stone of
with a pale green jade magnolia vase,17th/18th century, expertly yellowish-green tone with areas of chestnut tone. 8cm (3 1/8in) long.
hollowed and formed as the large petals of the magnolia, with smaller
buds growing on the side, 9cm (3 1/2in) long. (2). £12,000 - 15,000
CNY110,000 - 140,000
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000 Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 十八世紀 黃玉馬上封侯擺件

十八/十九世紀 白玉佛手 及 十七/十八世紀 青白玉玉蘭花插 各一 Provenance: a European private collection, purchased before 1966,
and thence by descent.
See a related jade magnolia vase, Qing dynasty, in the Qing Court Bonhams London, 5 November 2009, lot 280
Collection, illustrated in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace
Museum: Jade, 8, Beijing, 2011, no.175. For a related jade finger Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer
citron, excavated from Zhang Zhidong’s (1837-1909) residence at Exhibition, London, 2010, no.77.
Nanpi, Hebei Province, and now in the Hebei Provincial Centre for
Cultural Heritage Preservation, see Gu Fang, The Complete Collection 來源：歐洲私人舊藏，購於1966年以前，並由後人保存
of Unearthed Jades in China, Beijing, 2005, p.233. 倫敦邦瀚斯，2009年11月5日，拍品編號280

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展覽》，倫敦，2010年，
編號77

The present carving would have probably been presented to an
aspiring official, as the carving of a monkey hou 猴, and horse ma
馬 is a rebus for the blessing ‘May you immediately be conferred a
high-ranking position’ mashang feng hou 馬上封侯. See a similar
jade horse and monkey group, Ming dynasty, illustrated by W.Chung,
C.Michaelson and J.So, Chinese Jade Animals, Hong Kong, 1996,
pp.166-167, no.152. See another example, Ming dynasty, illustrated
by J.Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch’ing, New York, 1980,
p.87, no.70. See also a related example, Qianlong, illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware,
vol.3, Shanghai, 2008, no.91.

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