WHITE JADE 'BAMBOO' VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
£3,750
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art
Auction: 14 May 2021 at 11:00 BST
Description
清 白玉雕喜鵲登竹仿竹節式花插
naturalistically carved in round as a section of bamboo, one side carved in openwork with two slender bamboo shoots with expanding leaves in low relief, each with a magpie perching atop, the stone of even white tone with very light greenish tinge
Dimensions
8.8cm high
Footnote
Provenance: property of a gentleman; formerly in the collection of an European diplomat Sven Hedin (1865-1952) who acquired it from Hong Kong in 1930s
Note: A comparable jade paperweight of similar bamboo form and dated to the Qianlong period in the Heber R. Bishop Collection is in the collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 02.18.575; a Qing dynasty jade double vase joined with bamboo, fungus, and phoenix is in the Avery Brundage Collection at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco