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A yellow jade 'bird and flowers' pomander and cover, Ming dynasty | 明 黃玉花鳥紋荷包式香盒
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October 9, 07:30 AM GMT
Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
A yellow jade 'bird and flowers' pomander and cover,
Ming dynasty
明 黃玉花鳥紋荷包式香盒
fashioned in the form of a silk purse with gathered pleats, carved in low relief on one side with a bird in a lotus pond, the other side adorned with sprigs of aster flowers, the neck set with two small apertures for attachment, the smoothly polished stone of a yellowish-celadon tone with russet patches and white inclusions
4.8 by 7cm
Chung Wah Pui, Hong Kong, 6th April 1993.
鍾華培，香港，1993年4月6日
Jessica Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, pl. 25:33.
羅森，《Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，圖版25:33