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A RARE OLIVE-GREEN STEATITE THREE JADE SCHOLAR’S OBJECTS AN ARCHAIC PALE GREEN AND BLACK
COSMETIC BOX AND COVER Comprising a pale green and chestnut-brown JADE DISC, BI
Tang Dynasty ‘lotus’ washer, Song/Ming dynasty, carved Eastern Zhou Dynasty
Of quatrefoil form, the slightly domed cover as a concave lotus leaf supported by a spray Expertly carved on each surface with studs,
carved with a parrot, the box left plain. of leafy tendrils pierced to form its handles the stone of pale green tone with dark-brown
5cm (2in) wide. (2). and base, the details finely incised, the main inclusions. 5.7cm (2 1/4in) diam.
washer beside a smaller mushroom-coloured
£600 - 800 leaf, 9.5cm (3 3/4in) long; a green and russet £800 - 1,200
CNY5,400 - 7,200 jade double catfish group, 17th century, CNY7,200 - 11,000
5.5cm (2 1/8in) long; and a green and russet
jade pebble pendant, carved as a wrapped
Please note this Lot is to be sold at beribboned pebble and bat, 17th/18th Please note this Lot is to be sold at
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 century, 8.5cm (3 3/8in) long. (3). No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

唐 石雕鸚鵡紋蓋盒 東周 玉蒲紋壁
£500 - 800
See a related steatite circular seal paste box CNY4,500 - 7,200 See a similar jade disc, bi, Eastern Zhou
and cover, Tang dynasty, which was sold at dynasty, illustrated by J.Rawson, Chinese
Christie’s London, 17 March 2016, lot 1206. Please note this Lot is to be sold at Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London,
No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 1995, p.253, no.15:2; and another jade disc,
late Eastern Zhou dynasty, illustrated by
宋/明 玉蓮式洗、十七世紀 年年有魚飾件、 S.Howard Hansford, Jade: Essence of hills
及十七/十八世紀 玉雕隨形把件 一組三件 and streams, The Von Oertzen Collection of
Chinese and Indian Jades, London, 1969, B3.
Published, Illustrated and Exhibited: See another example illustrated in Catalogue
Roger Keverne Ltd., Winter Exhibition, of Ancient Jade Artifacts in the National
London, 2011, no.62 (washer). Palace Museum, Taipei, 1982, no.194.
展覽著錄：Roger Keverne Ltd.，《冬季展
覽》，倫敦，2011年，編號62（玉蓮式洗）

Lotus washers of this shape, dated to the
13th/14th century, are in the Victoria and
Albert Museum. nos.1857-1888 and 1623&A-
1882. The latter is also illustrated by C.Clunas,
Jade Carvers and their Customers in Ming
China, Transactions of the OCS, no.50 (1985-
6), fig.1, where the author suggests a possible
Southern Song date for this and similar
artefacts.

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