A CELADON JADE PEACH-SHAPED 'PARROT' CUP QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

worked in the form of a hollow half-peach borne on a leafy branch forming the handle and extending across the vessel with attendant peaches and floral blooms, a parrot with incised feathers depicted soaring on top, the stone of a pale celadon colour, wood stand

There are some minor nicks and nibbling along the extremities, including the edges of the parrot's wings, the leaves and petals. Some light bruises including one on the wing of the parrot and some on the leaves to the underside.
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Compare a closely related cup included in the exhibition Art in Quest and Truth - Chinese Jades through the Ages, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2011, cat. no. 7-2-2; another exhibited in The Grandeur of Chinese Art Treasures: Min Chiu Society Golden Jubilee Exhibition, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 2010, cat. no. 205; and a third cup published in Sydney L. Moss, Emperor. Scholar. Artisan. Monk. The Creative Personality in Chinese Works of Art, Hong Kong, 1984, pl. 94.