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A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE ‘QUAIL’ BOX ᪺ڊՌ ڊ̐ˡ☹ׁ Ⅾἕ㳤㴁⯰↥
AND COVER
⎊ℱǯ⏁ἃ㼀㼝ᆨ卿㕇ݤᓋ⚁ἃ⮃卿ज⏇ཎㅛ㱈৅ǯ㼀㼝㕇ӳ
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY
↱ᝳ㧩⒜ӶӬ⎏⨲ᬝ卿↱╖⠢⡿卿⊿჎★⧻ǯ㼀㼝ᛓ༈ᅡ჎⊇
The naturalistically carved bird is depicted in a recumbent position
⎏எᡪক଍⁒㙁௛卿्ᝳჹ໫Ԡዪǯ
with legs tucked under its plump body, the plumage carved in
minute detail, overlapping with scalloped edges fitting together at ϝᬝ
the breast and tail where the cover and base join. The stone is of a %S +PIO / -PPNJT Ⅷ⻦卿⡥⡙⼖༛ᬘ卿 ჺ ᝲ ᚚ卿
well-polished even white tone. ᐽ৅ ⽚
4 in. (10 cm.) long, box
㲞ᳰצ೥ᇑ卿 ჺ ᝲ ᚚ卿ᐽ৅ ⽚
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-64,000
PROVENANCE
The Collection of Dr. John N. Loomis, sold at Sotheby’s New
York, 28 November 1994, lot 68
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2011, lot 3911
An identical quail box is in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, vol. 6, pl. 106; a pair from
the T.Y Chao collection was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 19
November 1986, lot 144 and illustrated by R. Kleiner, Chinese
Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman,
Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 196; and another box from the Tianhe
Shanfang Collection was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30
May 2005, lot 1557.

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