Lot 15
  • 15

Étui en jade céladon pale incrusté dynastie Qing, époque Qianlong

Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 EUR
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Description

  • Jade, hardstones, string
quadrangulaire, deux faces incrustées de pierres dures multicolores de fleurs et feuillages et de chauves-souris et caractères shou sur les deux autres, manques (2)

Provenance

Acquired in China in the 1900s.
Thence in the family by descent.

Condition

Several inlays are missing as visible on the catalogue illustration (4 bats are missing on both sides and 1 flower on the cap as well as 12 small red stones), some very tiny dents to the edges of the recepticle, there is the original silk ribbon who has come off.
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