AN UNUSUAL WHITE-GLAZED FINGER CITRON DOUBLE-VASE GROUP

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细节

AN UNUSUAL WHITE-GLAZED FINGER CITRON DOUBLE-VASE GROUP
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Naturalistically carved in the round as two fruit with curled tendrils, each well hollowed as a vase, growing from gnarled branches bearing leaves and a smaller finger citron, intertwined amidst fruiting sprays of peaches and pomegranates, with a bat in flight beside the larger finger citron, the white stone with a slight celadon tinge with some opacity and small areas of russet inclusions
9 3/4 in. (24.7 cm.) high, stand

拍品专文

Compare the present group with similar examples carved as single vases, a pale celadon jade finger citron vase from the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated in Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, Oriental Ceramic Society, 1975, p. 123, no. 406; and a yellow jade example illustrated in Jadeware, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, vol. 42, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 52. For two white jade carvings of finger citron, see R. Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, pls. 202 and 203.