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182 | Bonhams A white jade ‘lotus’ carving
18th/19th century
Carved as a tall lotus flower with petals curling
open at the rim supported on a twisted leafy
stem also issuing two smaller lotus flowers and
a bulrush, a long-legged bird perched on one
branch grasping a leaf in its beak, wood stand.
14cm (5½in) high (2).
£6,000 - 10,000
HK$71,000 - 120,000 CNY56,000 - 94,000
十八/十九世紀 白玉雕蓮花
Provenance: Mr and Mrs James Mullion,
Ardenode House, Co. Kildare
Sold by Hamilton Osborne King, Dublin, 18th
July 1995
An Irish private collection
來源：來自愛爾蘭基爾代爾郡Ardenode House
的James Mullion先生與夫人收藏系列
1995年7月18日由都柏林的Hamilton Osborne
King售出
愛爾蘭私人收藏
Mr and Mrs James and Meg Mullion owned
a successful shipping business in the Far East
in the first half of the twentieth century,
during which time they built up an extensive
collection of Chinese art. As very keen and
knowledgeable race-horse owner-breeders,
they also managed a stud at Ardenode House,
the contents of which were sold in 1995.
See a similar carving but without the bird
illustrated in Compendium of Collections in
the Palace Museum, Beijing, 2011, no.170 and
another related piece but larger, ibid., no.169.

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A white and russet jade archaistic vase
Ming Dynasty
Carved with six rows of bosses around the
body flanked by a reticulated chilong on
each side, the neck with two pairs of shou
characters separated by two flanges down the
middle, and a simple circular handle on each
side, wood stand. 6.8cm (2 5/8in) high (2).
£5,000 - 8,000
HK$59,000 - 94,000 CNY47,000 - 75,000
明 白玉帶皮雕乳丁紋雙螭龍柄瓶
Provenance: Mr and Mrs James Mullion,
Ardenode House, Co. Kildare
Sold by Hamilton Osborne King, Dublin, 18th
July 1995
An Irish private collection
來源：來自愛爾蘭基爾代爾郡Ardenode House
的James Mullion先生與夫人收藏系列
1995年7月18日由都柏林的Hamilton Osborne
King售出
愛爾蘭私人收藏