CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

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IMPORTANTE BOITE CIRCULAIRE COUVERTE EN JADE BLANC
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
Très finement sculptée, le couvercle orné au centre du caractère shou, entouré de cinq chauve-souris aux ailes déployées, les côtés de la boîte et du couvercle ornés des huit emblèmes bouddhistes de Bon Augure, alternant avec des lambrequins à motifs de dragons gui stylisés sur le couvercle et d'éléments archaïsants sur la boîte
Diamètre: 14,7 cm. (5¾ in.)

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Collection de Madame Florence Van der Kemp.

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AN IMPORTANT WHITE JADE CIRCULAR BOX AND COVER
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

拍品专文

The decoration of this box is particularly auspicious. The five bats encircling the shou character on the top of the cover symbolise the Five Happiness: Wealth, Longevity, Health, Virtue and Natural Death. The sides of both the cover and the box finely carved with the Eight Auspicious Emblems.
Such large and exquisitely carved white jade boxes are very rare. A less elaborated example but similarly decorated with bats and shou character on the top is illustrated in Jade as Sculpture, Minnesota Museum of Art, Rare Art Inc., Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1975, pl.45. See also another white jade box finely carved with shou characters and Auspicious Symbols on the sides, the top of the cover enhanced with floral patterns, illustrated in 'A Romance with Jade - From the De An Tang Collection', Catalogue, Beijing Palace Museum, November-December 2004, p.171, pl.108.