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A FINE SPINACH-GREEN JADE DISH
Qianlong
Carved with gently-rounded sides rising from a slightly-tapered short
foot ring to a gently everted rim, the semi-transparent stone of olive-
green tone with cloudy and darker speckles. 22.3cm (8 3/4in) diam.
£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

清乾隆 碧玉盤

Compare with a very similar example, Qianlong seal mark and
period, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, acc.no.故-
玉-000960-N000000000. Other examples are illustrated by Bai
Wenyu, Shenyang Gugong Bowuyuan Yuangcan Jingpin Daxi: Yuqi
Juan, Shenyang, 2017, p.230; A related dish, Jiaqing mark and period,
is illustrate by Zhang Guangwen, Jasper Wares of Qing Dynasty
Collected by the Palace Museum and Mansi, Beijing, 2014, no.75.
See also a related spinach green jade bowl, 18th/19th century,
illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the
Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, London, vol.3, 2016, no.1859.

293
292 A FINE SPINACH-GREEN JADE ‘DOUBLE FISH’ MINIATURE
MARRIAGE BOWL
Qianlong
The shallow bowl smoothly polished and rising to a slightly-everted
rim, supported on five bracket feet, carved in relief with a pair of fish
in mirror image to the interior, the stone of dark olive-green tone with
dark speckles. 8.7cm (3 1/2in) diam.

£1,000 - 1,500
CNY9,000 - 14,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清乾隆 碧玉雕雙魚洗

Published, Illustrated, and Exhibited: Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter
Exhibition, London, 2005, no.97.

展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展覽》，倫敦，2005年，
編號97

The twin-fish symbol is considered to be one of the most auspicious
motifs of the Eight Buddhist Emblems (bajixiang), representing
‘freedom from restraint’ as well as the wish for ‘marital bliss, prosperity
and an abundance of good luck’. A Song dynasty jade dish with the
same motif, formerly in the collection of Sir Percival and Lady David, is
293 illustrated by B.Gray, ‘The Arts of the Sung Dynasty’, in Transactions of
the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol.32, 1959-1960, no.249, pl.90. See a
related small white jade ‘twin-fish’ shallow dish, Qianlong, which was
sold at Christie’s London, 9 November 2010, lot 123.

294
A SPINACH-GREEN JADE ‘PEACH’ WASHER
Mid Qing Dynasty
Carved in the form of a half hollow ripe peach, borne on a gnarled
branch issuing long curling leaves, the stone of dark-green tone with
black mottling and grey veining, carved wood stand.
12.3cm (4 7/8in) long. (2).
£800 - 1,200
CNY7,200 - 11,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清中期 碧玉雕桃形洗

Provenance: a Scottish private collection
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來源：蘇格蘭私人舊藏

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