A FINELY CARVED PAIR OF WHITE JADE 'LONG-TAILED BIRD' BOXES AND COVERS QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD of compressed globular form supported on a square-cut footring, the domed covers very finely carved on top with a low relief medallion within a raised border, each enclosing two long-tailed birds perched or flying around a fruiting tree issuing from a pierced garden rock, one box with an additional spray of chrysanthemum and the other with a cluster of rohdea japonica, the sides left plain save for a thin stepped lip encircling the rim and repeated around the box, the smoothly polished stone of ideal even-white colour with a few icy inclusions and russet-'skin' highlights 13 cm., 5 1/8 in.
A FINELY CARVED PAIR OF WHITE JADE 'LONG-TAILED BIRD' BOXES AND COVERS QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD of compressed globular form supported on a square-cut footring, the domed covers very finely carved on top with a low relief medallion within a raised border, each enclosing two long-tailed birds perched or flying around a fruiting tree issuing from a pierced garden rock, one box with an additional spray of chrysanthemum and the other with a cluster of rohdea japonica, the sides left plain save for a thin stepped lip encircling the rim and repeated around the box, the smoothly polished stone of ideal even-white colour with a few icy inclusions and russet-'skin' highlights 13 cm., 5 1/8 in.
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