Lot 27
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WHITE JADE INSCRIBED WATER POT
LATE QING DYNASTY-REPUBLIC PERIOD, 19TH-20TH CENTURY
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 640
Auction: 14 May 2021 at 11:00 BST
Estimate: £1,500 - £2,000
Description
清末民初 白玉雕童子壽桃刻詩文雙耳水丞
carved as an oval vessel supported on a short straight foot, both sides of the tapering body finely engraved with a poem 'Yi Jian Mei' by Li Qingzhao (ca. 1084-1155), flanked by a pair of handles with a climbing joyous boy holding a lingzhi sprig to one side, the opposite with a peach borne on foliage, further incised with a key-fret band on the mouth rim, the stone of translucent whitish green colour with russet patches
Dimensions
12cm wide
Footnote
Provenance: Private English collection