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AN EXTREMELY RARE WHITE JADE ARCHAISTIC ‘YINGXIONG’
BOX AND COVER
Qianlong/Jiaqing
The cover exceptionally and crisply carved in varying levels of relief at
the centre with a cross-shaped motif surrounded by the Eight Daoist
Trigrams and a circular double rope-twist band, enclosed at the
four rounded corners with a mythical eagle deftly carved with a ruyi-
head-shaped tail, a raised single horn and a pointed beak, the box
executed in a similar manner with an archaistic horned bear at each
corner, meticulously depicted with outstretched wings and legs, the
even white stone well hollowed to form semi-translucent walls of even
thickness beneath an attractive glossy polish.
6.6cm (2 5/8in) square (2).

HK$2,500,000 - 3,500,000
US$320,000 - 450,000

清乾隆/嘉慶 白玉雕仿古鷹熊如意八卦紋蓋盒

Provenance:
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Christie’s New York, 16 September 2010, lot 1101

來源：
Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約
紐約佳士得，2010年9月16日，拍品編號1101

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