Lot 97
CELADON JADE 'CRAB AND MILLET' BRUSH REST
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Fine Asian & Islamic Works of Art | 713
Auction: 4 November 2022 at 10:00 GMT
Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000
Description
清 青玉雕歲歲和諧筆山
naturalistically carved crouching with long bent legs, the crab detailed with small eyes, bumps and ridged edges, the large pincers grasping a long stalk of millet, the stone with an even celadon colour
Dimensions
14.5cm wide
Footnote
Note: a closely comparable 18th-century celadon jade crab from the Ezekiel Collection, slightly larger in size and similar in design and motifs, was offered at Sotheby's London, 3 Nov 2021, lot 51; another 18th-century jade carving of a crab is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession number: 02.18.377.