Lot 256
  • 256

A WHITE JADE ARCHER'S RING QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • jade
of cylindrical form, finely carved and reticulated with a continuous design of a sinuous chilong and its young among scrolling lingzhi, the smooth white stone with pale russet streaks

Provenance

Parke Bernet Galleries Inc., New York, 1968.

Exhibited

From Heaven and Earth: Chinese Jade in Context, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus Ohio, 1998. 

Condition

The ring has a number of stained fissure lines. Two fissure line with chips at the rim.
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