Eleven exemplary eighteenth century Chinese Jades:

2. A White Jade 'Peach' Box and Cover

18th century

Its profile shaped as a ripe peach on a leafy bough, with straight sides and a subtly recessed foot. The branches and curving leaves delicately carved in shallow relief on the slightly convex cover, further embellished on one side with a flying bat holding a tasselled wan symbol in its mouth. The entire composition a homonym for the rebus wanshoufugui: good-fortune and longevity for ten thousand years. The box made from green-tinted white, translucent material with occasional traces of bright russet skin, displaying a fine undulating polish throughout.

6.7 cm. (2.5 in.) wide
Provenance: Marvin Greenfield Collection

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