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A FINE WHITE JADE RECUMBENT A RARE AND LARGE IMPERIAL PALE The present lot depicts the sturdy evergreen
HORSE GREEN JADE JARDINIÈRE WITH AGATE Rohdea Japonica which in Chinese is known
18th century AND JADE LEAVES as the ‘ten thousand year green’ (wannianqing
Exquisitely carved with its head turned The jardinière 18th century, the flowers 萬年青). The bright green leaves symbolise
towards its raised hind left leg, with crisply possibly later continued growth and happiness, while
incised mane and tail sweeping around the The jardinière of cylindrical form and pale the clusters of berries which are red, stand
right haunch, the front legs folded and tucked green tone, carved with a pair of auspicious for numerous descendants. This plant in a
underneath its smooth body, the stone of an lingzhi fungus handles and two bats with the bucket-shaped jardinière (tong 桶) puns with
even white tone. wings extended on the rim, the potted plant ‘unified rule’ (yitong 一統), and forms the
8cm (3 1/8in) long. finely carved with agate berries amid long rebus for ‘one unified rule for ten thousand
spinach jade leaves, attached wood stand. years’ (yitong wannian 一統萬年). The present
£10,000 - 15,000 42cm (16 1/2in) high (2). lot therefore encapsulates the Imperial Court’s
CNY91,000 - 140,000 ambitions for stability.
£8,000 - 12,000
十八世紀 白玉臥馬把件 CNY72,000 - 110,000 Jardinières with the pot made of jade are
rare and are more commonly seen in similar
Provenance: an English private collection, 十八世紀及更晚 青白玉嵌寶盆景 form of cloisonné enamel. Compare with two
acquired by the owner’s grandparents and related cloisonné enamel jardinières with jade
thence by descent Provenance: a distinguished English private and hardstone leaves and fruits, of similar
collection form, in the Chuxiugong within the Forbidden
來源：英國私人收藏，由現藏家祖父母購 City, Beijing, illustrated in Life in the Forbidden
得，並由後人保存迄今 來源： 顯貴英國私人收藏 City of Qing Dynasty: Classics of Forbidden
City, Beijing, 2007, p.143, pl.214.
Compare with a similar jade horse in the
Musée Cenuschi, Paris, 18th century, A pair of pale celadon jade jardinières, but
illustrated in Jades Chinois Pierres of square form and without the hardstone
D’immortalité, Paris, 1997, p.166, no.100. leaves and fruits, 18th century, were sold at
Sotheby’s New York, 11-12 September 2012,
lot 346.

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