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The Property of a Gentleman 紳士藏品

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A RARE AND FINE VERY PALE GREEN JADE ‘CHILONG’ The style and quality of the present lot embodies much of the
BRUSHWASHER celebrated 18th century jade production under the Qianlong emperor.
18th century The remarkable even tone of the stone was admired by the master
The attractive stone of even tone and smoothly carved as a bowl carver who chose to highlight its quality by retaining plain undecorated
with slightly flaring rim and a shallow recessed base, the plain sides sides. This was cleverly contrasted with the high-relief carving to the
contrasting with a crisp high-relief carved chilong curling its body interior well, showcasing the carver’s virtuosity and creativity with the
inside the central well and entwined with leafy tendrils. interwoven layers of leaves above and around the dragon.
11.6cm (4½in) diam.
The raised relief decoration at the centre was not merely decorative
£12,000 - 15,000 but also utilitarian allowing the brush to be cleaned against the dragon
CNY110,000 - 130,000 carving. Compare with a similar chilong brushwasher, Qing dynasty,
illustrated in Gems of Beijing Cultural Relics Series:Jades, Beijing,
1999, pl.248, p.206. Compare also with the form of another white jade
十八世紀 青白玉雕螭龍穿花洗 ‘double fish’ brushwasher, 18th century, illustrated by J.C.S.Lin, The
Immortal Stone: Chinese Jades from the Neolithic to the Twentieth
Provenance: Baron Fould-Springer, Royaumont Abbatial Palace, France Century, Cambridge, 2009, no.103, p.124. A further related example,
S. Marchant & Son, London 18th century, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2014,
A distinguished English private collection lot 3657. A related dish with similarly crisp treatment of the relief
carving, but with shallower sides of lobed petal-form, is illustrated
來源：法國皇宮Royaumont Abbatial Palace的Fould-Springer男爵舊藏 in the Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 10:
倫敦古董商，S. Marchant & Son Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2011, no.183. See also a similar bowl or brush
英國顯赫私人收藏 washer with a double fish medallion in the well, illustrated by R.Kleiner,
Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong
Kong, 1996, p.124., no.103.

Compare also with a related very pale greenish-white jade ‘dragon’
washer, Qianlong/ Jiaqing, which was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong,
28 November 2017, lot 9.

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