Imperial Cloisonné & Jade: Chinese Art from The Brooklyn Museum
Imperial Cloisonné & Jade: Chinese Art from The Brooklyn Museum
Property from the Brooklyn Museum, sold to support museum collections
A celadon jade reticulated 'peony' box and cover, Qing dynasty, 18th century | 清十八世紀 青玉透雕纏枝牡丹紋蓋盒
Auction Closed
March 17, 03:03 PM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A celadon jade reticulated 'peony' box and cover
Qing dynasty, 18th century
清十八世紀 青玉透雕纏枝牡丹紋蓋盒
of flattened circular form, the cover delicately carved in openwork with lush peony blooms borne on leafy stems against an intricate arabesque ground, surrounded by a border of keyfret and a further band of openwork peony scroll, the box similarly carved, the stone a cool beige-celadon with streaks of brown and cream (2)
Diameter 5 ⅞ in., 15 cm
Collection of Robert B. Woodward (1840-1915).
Gifted to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, in 1914 (acc. no. 14.276.1a-b).
來源
Robert B. Woodward (1840-1915) 收藏
1914年贈予布魯克林博物館，布魯克林 (館藏編號14.276.1a-b)
John Getz, The Woodward Collection of Jades and Other Hard Stones, New York, 1913, pl. 53.
出版
John Getz，《The Woodward Collection of Jades and Other Hard Stones》，紐約，1913年，圖版53
The present box is exceptional for not one, but two layers of intricate openwork, in the form of lush peony blossom scrolls on a secondary ground of tight arabesques. Such carving would have required the utmost skill and patience, to ensure the harmony and preservation of intertwined branches, stems, and fine scrolls.
A box and cover of related proportions and design, centering precious objects surrounded by lotus scroll, sold at Christie's New York, 19th September 1996, lot 131. Another, carved with lotus, was sold in these rooms, 20th October 1988, lot 255. Compare also two slightly smaller reticulated floral boxes, illustrated in James C. Y. Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1989, pls 86 and 87. A smaller example with just one blossom on the cover was sold at Christie's New York, 25th March 2010, lot 1139.
For a later 19th century example of this peony design without a pierced center, see one sold in our London rooms, 10th November 2010, lot 228.