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A WHITE JADE ‘MAGNOLIA’ VASE A RARE PALE GREEN JADE ‘DRAGON AND YOUNG’
Qianlong/Jiaqing VASE AND COVER
Crisply carved as three tall magnolia blossoms issuing from a single Qianlong
curling stem, each blossom formed by layers of overlapping petals Exquisitely carved in relief to the smooth tapering vase with billowing
and the larger two with the petal tips beginning to curl away from the clouds, the waisted neck climbed by a large scaly dragon and a
centre of the opening flower revealing a hollow vase, wood stand. chilong clambering above craggy rocks around the base, the cover
11.4cm (4 1/2in) high. surmounted by a rope-twist finial, the semi-translucent stone of a pale
green tone with frost-white inclusions, wood stand.
£3,000 - 5,000 17cm (6 3/4in) high. (3).
CNY26,000 - 44,000
£40,000 - 60,000
清乾隆/嘉慶 白玉玉蘭花插 CNY350,000 - 530,000

Provenance: acquired probably from Louis Joseph, London, 清乾隆 青白玉蒼龍教子蓋瓶
prior to 20 August 1968
Bonhams London, 10 November 2016, lot 74 The motif of an adult and young dragon seems to have been favoured
A distinguished Hong Kong private collection by the Qianlong emperor and has been interpreted as conveying the
message of the father teaching his son the ways of life, and within the
來源： 或於1968年8月20日前，購自古董商倫敦Louis Joseph Imperial family, that of the emperor giving lessons to the prince.
倫敦邦瀚斯，2016年11月10日，拍品編號74
香港顯貴私人收藏 Compare with a white jade vase and cover, Qing dynasty, in the Qing
Court Collection, carved with adult and young dragons pursuing the
The magnolia is a symbol of purity, making it extremely suitable as a flaming pearl, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
subject for carving from this piece of fine white jade. This combination Palace Museum: Jadeware II, Beijing, 2008, pl.21. See also another
of white jade forming a white magnolia also embodies a particularly related jade ‘dragon’ vase and cover, Qianlong, illustrated by R.Kleiner,
apt pun on the name for the flower (yulan 玉蘭) which incorporates Chinese Jade from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman,
the word for jade (yu 玉). Compare with a related but larger white jade Hong Kong, 1996, p.191, no.147. See also a related pale green jade
magnolia vase illustrated in The Woolf Collection of Chinese Jade, ‘dragons’ vase and cover, Qianlong, which was sold at Bonhams
London, 2013, no.78. London, 17 May 2018, lot 157.

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