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A RARE WHITE AND BROWN JADE RETICULATED A RARE WHITE JADE RETICULATED ‘EGRET AND LOTUS
‘DRAGON’ FINIAL POND’ FINIAL
Ming Dynasty Yuan/Ming Dynasty
Intricately carved in openwork as a long writhing dragon with Deftly carved and pierced in openwork as six elegant egrets in a
bifurcated tail coiling back sharply over its hind legs, all above wispy tranquil pond among towering lotus stalks and blossoms, swaying and
clouds, the stone of white-greyish tone with darker brown patches, bending in the breeze, the base pierced with eight small apertures, the
wood stand. stone of even pale-white tone, with very minor inclusions.
3.4cm (1 3/4in) high. (2). 5cm (2in) high.

£3,000 - 5,000 £4,000 - 6,000
CNY26,000 - 44,000 CNY35,000 - 53,000

明 白玉褐沁龍紋爐頂 元/明 白玉鏤雕鷺蓮紋爐頂

Provenance: S.Marchant & Son Ltd., London Provenance: S.Marchant & Son Ltd., London
A distinguished English private collection A distinguished English private collection

來源：購於倫敦S.Marchant & Son Ltd. 來源：購於倫敦S.Marchant & Son Ltd.
英國顯貴私人收藏 英國顯貴私人收藏

Dragon finials of this quality are very rare. Another related openwork Compare with two related reticulated jade ‘egret and lotus’ finials,
dragon finial, Ming dynasty, from the collection of Mr and Mrs Philip Yuan dynasty, one of which was unearthed from the Ren family tomb
Chum is illustrated by Ip Yee in Chinese Jade Carving, Hong Kong, at Qingpu, Shanghai, Yuan dynasty, illustrated in Shanghai Museum
1983, p.230, no.207. Ancient Jade Gallery, Shanghai, p.36. See also a related reticulated
white jade finial, Ming dynasty, illustrated in the Compendium of
Compare with a related pale green and russet jade ‘dragon’ finial, Ming Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, Ming Dynasty, vol.6, Beijing,
dynasty, from the Muwen Tang Collection, which was sold at Sotheby’s 2010, pl.118.
Hong Kong, 1 December 2016, lot 66.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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