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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
~1078
AN UNUSUAL JADE CARVING OF A MELON AND AN IMPERIAL ZITAN BOX AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
The white stone is well carved as a lobed melon borne on a leafy, fowering vine that trails down one side
and bears a smaller melon of enhanced green color. The leaves are picked out in brown and russet, as is a
butterfy below the small melon. The zitan box and cover is carved with a butterfy in fight amidst leafy,
fowering stems of begonia reserved on a cloud diaper ground
The jade 3¡ in. (8.5 cm.) high, the box 4æ in. (12 cm.) long (2)
$400,000-600,000
PROVENANCE
Xu Hanqing (1882-1961) Collection.
The Xu Hanqing Collection; Christie’s New York, 15 September 2011, lot 933.
清十八世紀 白玉巧雕瓜瓞綿綿擺件
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