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83 A CELADON JADE ‘DOUBLE
GOURD’ GROUP
㶭 曺 QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY
⋩ 䌱 carved as a slender elongated double gourd borne on an
ℓġ 晽 openwork branch issuing leafy tendrils and two smaller gourds
İġ 䤷 suspended along the upper bulb, a bat wrapping itself across
⋩ 䤧 one side of the lower bulb, the stone a pale even celadon, wood
ḅ 暁 stand (2)
ᶾ ℐ
䲨ġġġ ㈲
ẞ Height 4¼ in., 10.8 cm

PROVENANCE
Spink & Son, London, 25th May 1983.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016)
Irving, no. 413.
LITERATURE
Roger Keverne, ed., Jade, London, 1995, Þ g. 81.
$ 4,000-6,000
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84 A WHITE JADE ‘SQUIRREL AND
GRAPE’ GROUP

㶭 䘥 QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
⋩ 䌱 the squirrel standing atop a large grape leaf with the forelegs
ℓ 晽 bent and the neck and head lowered, the tail sweeping down in
ᶾ 㜦 an arc at the other end of the leaf, a cluster of large grapes to
䲨ġġġ 滈 one side of the animal, the stone an even white with an orange-
吉 russet skin at the underside of the leaf and at the base of the
厬 squirrel’s tail
㈲
ẞ
Length 2½ in., 6.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Oriental Rarities (Alan Hartman), New York, 3rd November 1980.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016)
Irving, no. 334.
$ 6,000-8,000
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