AN IMPERIAL EMBELLISHED-JADE HUNTING KNIFE AND GOLD SCABBARD

Lot 931
23.03.2023 08:30UTC -05:00
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$ 70 000
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Lot 931 | AN IMPERIAL EMBELLISHED-JADE HUNTING KNIFE AND GOLD SCABBARD
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$ 70 000 – 90 000
AN IMPERIAL EMBELLISHED-JADE HUNTING KNIFE AND GOLD SCABBARD

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The slender steel blade is incised with a gilt three-clawed dragon chasing a flaming pearl near the hilt on either side, and the white jade handle is decorated at both ends with bands of faceted square ruby-red glass inlays. The gold scabbard is wrought in openwork floral scroll and decorated with similar glass collars at either end, with the open end further decorated with a small florette and surmounted by a protruding dragon-head tab fitted with a loop for suspension. The base of the scabbard and the top of the handle have matching inlaid eight-petaled florettes.

Overall: 12 3/8 in. (31.5 cm.) long, steel stand, cloth box

Knife: 10 3/4 in. (27.4 cm.) long

Scabbard: 8 3/4 in. (22.2 cm.) long





Provenance

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 April 2010, lot 1812.

Hugh Moss, Shuisongshi Shanfang (Water, Pine and Stone Retreat) Collection.

J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. x2623.



Literature

J. J. Lally & Co., Elegantly Made: Art for the Chinese Literati, New York, 2020, no. 23.



Exhibited

New York, J. J. Lally & Co., Elegantly Made: Art for the Chinese Literati, 13-27 March 2020.
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