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4 mai 2020

A pale green jade 'mythical beast' brush washer, Mid Qing Dynasty

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Lot 183. A pale green jade 'mythical beast' brush washer, Mid Qing Dynasty; 25.4cm diamEstimate HK$200,000 - 400,000. Sold for HK$ 275,000 (€ 32,621). Photo: Bonhams.

Carved with shallow rounded sides rising from a short foot to a slightly everted rim, the interior decorated with incised and gilded lotus blooms borne on leafy tendrils, the stone of a deep green tone with minor black and buff coloured inclusions.

Note: In the reign of the Qianlong Emperor jade availability of jade material increased significantly through the successful military campaigns of the Xinjiang area. Due to this increase in jade supplies, particularly of large sized boulders, the Qianlong period saw a flourishing of table screens, large dishes like the present lot and other sizeable decorative works of art in jade. Gilt decoration on jade, which accorded with the Qianlong Emperor's taste for luxury and opulent decorative styles, would have been reserved for special and top quality jade stones and continued to be used in the later reigns of Jiaqing and Daoguang.

Several examples of gilt-inscribed or gilt-decorated jade works of art have been sold through auction, including a gilt-inscribed Khotan jade 'luohan' screen, Qianlong, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 November 2005, lot 1617; a gilt-decorated celadon jade bowl, Qianlong mark and of the period, was previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 2004, lot 1126 and again at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2012, lot 4314; and a spinach green jade bowl with similar styled gilt-decoration as to the current lot was sold at Christie's London, 5 November 2013, lot 71.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, Hong Kong, Admiralty, 26 May 2014

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