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A PALE GREEN JADE ‘CHILONG’ BRUSH
WASHER
18th century
Carved as a shallow dish of quatrelobed
shape with a flat base and three chilong
dragons clambering around the sides with
faces and front paws peeping over the rim,
the interior with a pearl issuing fire scrolls.
12.7cm (5in) long.

£1,500 - 2,000
CNY14,000 - 18,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

十八世紀 青玉雕螭龍紋洗

Compare with a related smaller white jade
oval chilong washer, Qianlong seal mark and
period, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated
in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum: Jadeware II, Beijing, 2008,
pl.191; and another slightly larger related
white jade chilong washer, Qianlong mark and
period, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated
by Zheng Xinmiao, ed., Compendium of
Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade,
Qing Dynasty, vol.10, Beijing, 2010, pl.188.
A related jade ‘chilong’ brush washer, 18th
century, was sold at Bonhams London,
7 November 2013, lot 125.
727
729
A FINE WHITE JADE ‘FOUR SCHOLARLY
ACCOMPLISHMENTS’ CARVING
Qianlong
The smoothly-polished stone deftly carved in
the form of a seven-stringed guqin within a
brocade sash loosely tied with a ribbon and
partially exposing the instrument, wrapped
together with two scroll paintings on the
side, a book on the front and a weiqi board
on the reverse, finely incised on one side of
the instrument with a qian trigram seal, the
semi-translucent white stone with faint russet
inclusions. 7.2cm (2 3/4in) long.
£4,000 - 6,000
CNY36,000 - 54,000
Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

清乾隆 白玉雕琴棋書畫把件

728 The carefully-carved qian trigram flanked
by two chi-dragons on the present lot can
728 be also found on one of the personal seals
A VERY PALE GREEN JADE BELT HOOK 清中期 青白玉雕螭龍帶扣 of the Qianlong emperor, of which the seal
Mid Qing Dynasty impression is published in the Collections
The terminal deftly carved in high relief with a See a similar white jade belt hook, 18th of the Palace Museum: Album of the
twin-horned dragon head, with large bulging century, which was sold at Sotheby’s Paris, 10 Seal Impressions of Qing Emperors and
eyes, looking at a long sinuous chilong December 2019, lot 63. See also another very Empresses, vol.6, Qianlong part II (Gugong
clasping a sprig of lingzhi clambering towards pale green dragon belt hook, Qianlong, which bowuyuan cang: Qingdai Dihou Xiyinpu. Di
the larger dragon, the underside with a circular was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 28 May Liuce. Qianlong juan er), Beijing, 2005, p.127.
boss, the stone of even pale-green tone. 2019, lot 66. This delicately-carved jade group depicts
14cm (5 1/2in) long. ‘The Four Scholarly Accomplishments’,

£800 - 1,200 siyi: the four main academic and artistic
accomplishments required of the aristocratic
CNY7,200 - 11,000 Chinese scholar-gentleman, which comprised
playing the seven-stringed zither, qin, the
Please note this Lot is to be sold at strategy game of qi, writing calligraphy or shu,
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 and painting or hua.

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