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Lot Essay
Compare with a very similar 'treasure' box in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, bearing a four-character Qianlong mark and fitted with an inner compartmentalised tray containing miniatures and other precious objects, illustrated in Gugong wen wu jing hua bai pin zhan, (II), 2000, pp. 90-91 (fig. 1).
Compare also with three other spinach-green jade boxes of different forms, each with a white jade plaque inset to the cover, and all in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, Qing dynasty, vol. 6, Hebei meishu chubanshe, 1991, pls. 101 (a globular box), 104 (a circular box) and 105 (a circular box carved with borders of petals in high relief to the sides).
A spinach-green jade circular box inset with a white jade plaque to the cover was included in The Empress Place exhibition, Imperial Life in the Qing Dynasty, Treasures in the Shenyang Palace Museum, and is illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 97. Another smaller example was sold in these Rooms, 30 April 2001, lot 604.
Compare also with three other spinach-green jade boxes of different forms, each with a white jade plaque inset to the cover, and all in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, Qing dynasty, vol. 6, Hebei meishu chubanshe, 1991, pls. 101 (a globular box), 104 (a circular box) and 105 (a circular box carved with borders of petals in high relief to the sides).
A spinach-green jade circular box inset with a white jade plaque to the cover was included in The Empress Place exhibition, Imperial Life in the Qing Dynasty, Treasures in the Shenyang Palace Museum, and is illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 97. Another smaller example was sold in these Rooms, 30 April 2001, lot 604.