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A PAIR OF PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE ‘QUAIL’ Much admired in China for their courage and fighting spirit, pairs of
BOXES AND COVERS quail, shuang an, are also a homophone for ‘peace and prosperity’.
18th/19th century
Each well carved in the form of a quail, the cover delicately incised with A related white jade ‘quail’ box, 18th century, in the Palace Museum,
overlapping layers of plumage covering the bird’s head and extending Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete collection of Chinese jades,
across its plump body, the head detailed with elongated eyes and a Shijiazhuang, 2005, vol.6, p.69, no.106. A related pair of ‘quail’ boxes,
short curved beak, the lower portion worked as the lower body of the Qianlong, with their heads turned, jade in the Seattle Museum, is
bird similarly decorated with plumage above a pair of claws gently illustrated by J.C.Y.Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the
tucked under the base, the stone of a pale green colour with faint Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1989, no.73.
russet and cloudy inclusions.
11.6cm (4 1/2in) wide. (4). A similar pair of white jade ‘quail’ boxes, Qianlong, was sold at
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 October 2018, lot 3416.
£10,000 - 15,000
CNY88,000 - 130,000
十八/十九世紀 青白玉雕鵪鶉形蓋盒一對

Provenance: George Schultz collection, and thence by descent.

來源：George Schultz 收藏，並由後人保存迄今

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