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A LARGE PALE GREEN JADE ‘LOTUS- A PALE GREEN AND RUSSET JADE A WHITE JADE ‘DOUBLE-GOURD’
ROOT’ CARVING ‘PEACH AND BAT’ BELT BUCKLE CARVING
Mid Qing Dynasty
17th/18th century
18th century
The stone naturalistically carved as a Finely carved as a large peach borne on a The pebble of flattened rounded form, carved
long root, the rhizome finely detailed with naturalistic gnarled, leafy stem bearing flower and pierced as a large double-gourd with
constricted knotty sections with a blossoming buds, with a bat perched on the long and fleshy leaves and incised veins within curling
lotus bud issuing from it, the polished stone curling leaf depicted on the side of the fruit, tendrils issuing a further two smaller gourds,
of pale green tone with cloudy inclusions, the reverse with two hooks for fastening, the the stone of white tone with minor russet and
wood stand. 24.5cm (9 6/8in) long. (2). stone of very pale green tone with russet black inclusions. 6.5cm (2 1/2in) high.
inclusions.
£3,000 - 5,000 6cm (2 3/8in) long. £1,200 - 1,500
CNY27,000 - 45,000 CNY11,000 - 14,000
£800 - 1,200
Please note this Lot is to be sold at CNY7,200 - 11,000 Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
十八世紀 玉雕蓮藕 No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清中期 白玉葫蘆把件

Provenance: Spink & Sons Ltd., London 十七/十八世紀 玉桃蝠紋佩 Provenance: acquired in Paris, 1959
(label on stand) Sotheby’s London, 4 November 2019, lot 7

來源：倫敦古董商Spink & Sons Ltd.（底座 Published, Illustrated and Exhibited:
Roger Keverne Ltd., Summer Exhibition,
上標籤）
London, 2010, no.89.
See a similar jade ‘lotus-root’ carving, Qing
dynasty, illustrated by Lin Shwu Shin, Jade: 來源：前藏家於1959年購自巴黎
Ch’ing Dynasty Treasures, Taipei, 1997, 倫敦蘇富比，2019年11月4日，拍品編號7
p.102, no.38. Compare also with a related
white jade ‘lotus root’ brushrest, Qing 展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《夏季展
dynasty, from the Qing Court Collection and 覽》，倫敦，2010年，編號89
now in the National Museum of China (acc.
no.t20181218.24663). See a similar jade gourd carving, illustrated
by L.J.Davidson, Jades of the T.B.Walker
See a similar jade lotus root which was sold Collection at the Walker Art Center
at Christie’s New York, 19 March 2013, lot Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1950, pp.82-83,
275. no.174. See also a larger group, illustrated by
S.Lin, Jade: Ch’ing Dynasty Treasures, Taipei,
1997, no.63.
For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
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