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A LARGE PALE CELADON JADE TWIN 'FINGER CITRON' VASE
PROPERTY FROM THE JOHANNSSEN FAMILY COLLECTION, CALIFORNIA
A LARGE PALE CELADON JADE TWIN 'FINGER CITRON' VASE

QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

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A LARGE PALE CELADON JADE TWIN 'FINGER CITRON' VASE
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY
Naturalistically carved as a pair of large citrons with curling 'fingers' issuing from openwork leafy branch emerging from the base and curling around the sides of the fruit, the stone of pale greenish-white colour with some opaque white and minor pale russet inclusions
7 1/4 (18.4 cm.) high, wood stand, box
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Acquired in Hong Kong during the 1950s

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Aster Ng
Aster Ng

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Other jade finger citron carvings hollowed as vases include a pale celadon jade vase from the Victoria and Albert Museum, included in the exhibition Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, Oriental Ceramic Society, 1975, Catalogue no. 406; a white jade example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by Geoffrey Wills, Jade of the East, New York, 1972, fig. 65; and a large yellow jade vase from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 52.

This naturalistically carved form is also called a 'Buddha Hand'. Although inedible, the fruit has a strong citrus fragrance which is often used for scenting rooms, and for offering at the Buddhist altar.