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A CELADON JADE 'PRUNUS' SLIP HOLDER
18th centuryOf cylindrical form with a slightly everted rim and convex lip, the sides finely carved with gnarled blossoming prunus trees growing from a ground punctuated with fantastic rocks and lingzhi sprigs beneath a full moon, all supported on a recessed foot, the translucent stone with some cloudy-white inclusions and a lustrous polish.4 1/8in (10.4cm) high
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十八世紀 青玉雕寒月枯梅圖籤詩筒Provenance:A French collection, acquired in China before 1922Christie's Paris, 11 December 2014, lot 13來源:法國珍藏,1922年前購於中國巴黎佳士得,2014年12月11日,拍品編號13This small elegant jade container would have been used to hold numbered slips made of either bamboo, wood or ivory. The container would have been held between the hands and gently shaken until one of the numbered slips rises above the rest and falls out, providing the desired random number. The numbers could be attached to poems used for divination or to themes for poems, where scholars would then compose a poem based on the theme assigned to that number.A Ming dynasty example was sold at Christie's London, 6 November 2009, lot 59. Another 18th century jade example, described as a small brushpot was sold at Sotheby's Paris, 16 December 2010, lot 25, and a Qianlong period example, also described as a small brushpot was sold at Christie's, South Kensington, 13 May 2011, lot 1075.