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A CHICKEN BONE JADE A PALE GREEN AND MUSHROOM Jade brush washers in the shape of a lotus
‘PEACH’ WASHER COLOURED JADE ‘LOTUS’ WASHER leaf became popular accessories for the
18th century Song/Ming Dynasty scholar’s desk in the Song Dynasty.
Finely carved with five bats around the rim, Carved as a concave lotus leaf supported by
and with gnarled, leafy branches to the base a spray of leafy tendrils carved in reticulation Lotus washers of this shape, dated to
and rising up the sides, the stone of an to form its handles and base, the details finely the 13th/14th century, are in the Victoria
opaque creamy beige-flecked tone, box. incised, the main washer flanked by a smaller and Albert Museum. nos. 1857-1888 and
15.5cm (6.1/8in) wide. mushroom-coloured leaf. 1623&A-1882. The latter is also illustrated by
9.5cm (3 3/4in) wide C. Clunas, Jade Carvers and their Customers
£7,000 - 9,000 in Ming China, Transactions of the OCS, no.
CNY62,000 - 79,000 £3,000 - 5,000 50 (1985-6), fig. 1, where the author suggests
HK$68,000 - 87,000 CNY26,000 - 44,000 a possible Southern Song date for this and
HK$29,000 - 48,000 similar artefacts.

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