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146 A MUGHAL-STYLE BROWNISH-WHITE JADE CUP
18th/19th century
147 The shallow cup carved with a continuous low-relief band
of leaves encircling the exterior of the rim, above a further
band of smaller leaves at the foot, the handle formed as a
curling leaf, wood stand.
14.5cm (5 7/8in) wide (2).

£2,000 - 3,000
HK$22,000 - 33,000 CNY18,000 - 28,000

十八/十九世紀 褐白玉痕都斯坦式莨苕紋瓜瓣盤

Provenance: acquired from Louis Joseph, London, 13
May 1969
An English private collection, and thence by descent

來源： 於1969年5月13日購自倫敦古董商Louis Joseph
英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今

The intricate ‘half-gourd’ shape of the present cup was
inspired by Mughal jades from India as is demonstrated
in the extensive collection of such cups from the
Qing Court Collection and now in the National Palace
Museum; see Teng Shu-p’ing, Exquisite Beauty: Islamic
Jades, Taipei, 2007, pls.90-93 (dating to the 17th and
18th century). Mughal jades were presented to the Qing
Court as tribute, and documentation for such tributes
survives from the Qianlong reign period. The Qianlong
emperor demonstrated his admiration for ‘Hindustan’
jade and composed poems which were inscribed on jade
artefacts. This imperial interest prompted Indian jades to
be traded through the Muslim regions and into China and
indeed for jades to be carved in India as export to China
and to be carved in China in the ‘Hindustan’ style; see
ibid., p.241.

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A WHITE JADE ‘MAGNOLIA’ VASE
Qianlong/Jiaqing
The white jade of remarkable even tone crisply carved as
three tall magnolia blossoms issuing from a single curling
stem, each blossom formed by layers of overlapping
petals and the larger two with the petal tips beginning to
curl away from the centre of the opening flower revealing
a hollow vase, wood stand.
11.4cm (4 1/2in) high (2).

£4,000 - 6,000
HK$44,000 - 66,000 CNY37,000 - 55,000

清乾隆/嘉慶 白玉玉蘭花插

Provenance: acquired probably from Louis Joseph,
London, prior to 20 August 1968
An English private collection and thence by descent

來源： 於1968年8月20日前購得，或購自倫敦古董商
Louis Joseph
英國私人收藏，並由後人保存迄今

The magnolia is a symbol of purity, making it extremely
suitable as a subject for carving from this piece of fine
white jade. This combination of white jade forming a white
magnolia also embodies a particularly apt pun on the
name for the flower (yulan 玉蘭) which incorporates the
word for jade (yu 玉).

Compare a related but larger white jade magnolia vase
illustrated in The Woolf Collection of Chinese Jade,
London, 2013, no.78.