Asian Art I - 15th November 2016
Lot 8
A CHINESE CELADON JADE CARVING OF A MELON QIANLONG 1736-95 The large fruit issuing from a gnarled...
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A CHINESE CELADON JADE CARVING OF A MELON
QIANLONG 1736-95
The large fruit issuing from a gnarled stem, with leaves and tendrils curling around the elongated ovoid body, a single squirrel crouched to one side, the stone with russet-brown markings, 7cm.
Provenance: Lt. Col. Edmund Whitehead (1870-1945), an interpreter for the British Army who served in Beijing c.1890, and thence by descent.