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29 septembre 2017

A very fine and rare carved jadeite and diamond pendant

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Lot 2040. A very fine and rare carved jadeite and diamond pendant. Estimate HKD 5,500,000 - 7,500,000 (USD 704,000 - 960,000)© Poly Auction Hong Kong Limited

A jadeite plaque of intense green color, carved to depict landscape scenes, atop set with round brilliant and pear-shaped diamonds weighing altogehter approximately 8.50 carats, to a 1.86 carat square-cut diamond surmount, the 18K white gold back set with approximately 0.25 carats diamond and colored diamonds in Chinese motif symbolizing harmony and good luck, jadeite plaque measure approximately approximately 56.0 x 34.0 mm, pendant 7.2 cm long. Signed with marks of 'fortune' and 'Jialong' .

Accompanied by report no. KJ96439 dated 29 August 2017 from the Hong Kong Jade & Stone Laboratory stating that the jadeite tested is natural, known in the trade as “A Jade”.

PARADISE
This jadeite is well carved in high relief featuring lush and steep mountainous landscapes with pine and wutong trees, all amidst multi-layered rockwork and outcrops, with steps, streams and waterfalls. The highly translucent jadeite with extremely attractive brilliant emerald green color has exceptional size and thickness. The exceptional jadeite pendant would have been displayed on a scholar's desk, with the vast multi-layered mountainous landscape alluding to the idealized scholar's retreat. The auspicious subject matter conveys wishes of longevity and fortune.

The Qianlong emperor advocated that mountains and carved panels should carry the spirit of paintings by famous past masters. It is recorded that a number of classical paintings from the emperor's own collection was ordered to be reproduced in jade such as the well-known painting entitled Travelers in the Mountain, by the painter Guan Tong of the Five Dynasties (907-960 AD). In one of the emperor's poems, as discussed in an essay by Yang Boda (Arts of Asia, 'Jade: Emperor Ch'ien Lung's Collection in the Palace Museum, Peking', March-April 1992), the emperor noted in reference to a jade panel: 'This piece of precious jadeite is from Burma. It is too valuable for making display objects. In order to fully express its beauty, it is carved into a pendant with the scene of "the Spring beyond this world ". Imagination is exerted to turn the natural undulation or ruggedness into an appropriate landscape... It takes ten days to carve a tiny bit of water and five days to shape a piece of rock. The crafting is indeed very time-consuming. 

Poly Auction. Magnificent Jewels, 2 October 2017 1:30pm, Grand Hyatt Hong Kong

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