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VARIOUS PROPERTIES (another view)

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AN UNUSUAL PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE ‘BITTER
MELON’ BOX AND COVER
18TH-19TH CENTURY
Well carved as a bitter melon, the two halves are linked by two
sections of the leafy gnarled vine that continues onto the underside
of the box and onto the cover where a beetle has alighted.

3Ω in. (9 cm.) wide
$15,000-20,000

Jade interlocking stem boxes are more commonly found in
the form of a pomegranate or a peach. A pomegranate-form
interlocking jade box dated to the Qianlong period is illustrated
in Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum,
Seattle Art Museum, 1989, p. 99, no. 78. For another example in
the form of a peach, see R. Keverne, Jade, New York, 1991, p. 152,
fgs. 61 and 62.

清十八/十九世紀 癩瓜形蓋盒

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