RARE CHINESE WHITE AND SPINACH JADE CANDLESTICK
QING DYNASTY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Estimate: £8,000 - £12,000
Auction: 16 May 2025 from 09:00 BST
Description
清 白玉及碧玉雕蕉葉紋燭台
supported on a downturned disc-shaped stand, raising to a shapely, statuesque shaft with a white jade oval-bead centre flanked by spinach-jade foliated columnar sections at either end, further surmounted an upturned circular disc, both disc-shaped stand and candled holder carved in low relief with stylised plantain leaves
Dimensions
15.1cm high
Provenance
Formerly in the collection of Dr Wou Kiuan (1910-1997); Wou Lien-Pai Museum, coll. no. Q.9.14. Sold at Sotheby's London, 1 November 2022, lot 25.
前吳權博士 (1910-1997) 收藏；吳蓮伯博物院，編號Q.9.14。2022年11月1日售於倫敦蘇富比，拍品25。
Footnote
This unusual jade items was formed with five different parts, connected by brass insets, and possibly used as a candle holder. See some jade candlesticks in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, museum number: Guyu故玉446, 447, and some other in porcelain form, museum number: Guci 故瓷8488, 11453.
此罕見之玉器由五部分組成，透過黃銅鑲件連接，或爲燭臺。參臺北國立故宮博物院所藏之玉製燭臺，館藏號故玉446」、「447」，以及其他瓷製燭臺，館藏號「故瓷8488」、「11453」，可資參考。