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A RARE VERY PALE GREEN JADE ‘BAJIXIANG’ This very fine jade bowl with its superbly-carved butterfly handles
‘MARRIAGE’ BOWL belongs to the category of ‘marriage’ bowls alternatively carved with
Qianlong butterfly, bat or dragon handles, popular in the Qing dynasty Imperial
Crisply carved around the exterior with the ‘Eight Buddhist Emblems’ court. The two butterfly handles suspending loose rings in mirror image
amidst scrolling lotus, flanked by a pair of butterfly handles each symbolise ‘Joyful encounter’ (Xi xiangfeng 喜相逢), and by extension
suspending a loose ring, the interior worked in medium relief with a marital happiness.
nine-headed lingzhi fungus and nandina, all raised on four ruyi-feet,
the stone of pale greyish-green tone. For a related example of the use of butterfly handles see a white jade
25cm (9 3/4in) wide. censer and cover with four butterfly handles suspending loose rings,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
£8,000 - 12,000 Museum: Jadeware (II), Beijing, 2008, pl.27. See also a related white
CNY73,000 - 110,000 jade ‘marriage’ bowl, Qianlong, illustrated in The Woolf Collection of
Chinese Jade, London, 2013, no.71; and a similar jade’marriage’ bowl,
Qianlong, illustrated by R.Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of
清乾隆 青玉雕八吉祥紋雙蝶耳活環洗 Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no.88, which was later
sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 November 2007, lot 1503.
Provenance: a Scottish private collection
See also the related pale green jade ‘marriage’ bowl, 18th century,
來源：蘇格蘭私人藏品 which was sold at Bonhams London, 17 May 2012, lot 40.

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