Important Chinese Art including Imperial Jades from the De An Tang Collection

Important Chinese Art including Imperial Jades from the De An Tang Collection

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Property from the De An Tang Collection 德安堂藏玉

A white jade 'quail' box and cover Qing dynasty, Qianlong period | 清乾隆 白玉鵪鶉盒

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Property from the De An Tang Collection

A white jade 'quail' box and cover

Qing dynasty, Qianlong period

德安堂藏玉

清乾隆 白玉鵪鶉盒


well rendered in the form of a recumbent plump bird, depicted with round eyes and a short beak, the body finely carved with overlapping layers of plumage, the legs tucked neatly underneath the body, the well-polished stone of an even white tone

12 cm

A Romance with Jade: From the De An Tang Collection, Yongshougong, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2004, cat. no. 86.


《玉緣：德安堂藏玉》，永壽宮，故宮博物院，北京，2004年，編號86

The present quail box belongs to a group of jade vessels developed early in the Qianlong period which is represented in a number of collections. Compare a celadon jade box in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jades], Shijiazhuang, 2005, vol. 6, p. 69, no. 106; a smaller pair of quail boxes in the Seattle Art Museum, but carved from a slightly yellowish stone, illustrated in James Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1989, cat. no. 73; and another pair, also smaller in size, from the collection of Robert Youngman, sold in these rooms, 3rd April 2019, lot 3402.