A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE CARVING OF A FINGER CITRON

QING DYNASTY

With curved fingers and leaves issuing from the stem, the stone flecked with russet inclusions,14cm.

Provenance: purchased from Fukien Exhibition Company, Singapore, 12th August 1969 for S

900.

Cf. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, 42, Jadeware III, 64 no.52 for a yellow jade example, see also R Lefebvre d'Argencé, Chinese Jades in the Avery Brundage Collection, pp.106-107 and J M Hartman, Chinese Jade of Five Centuries, pp.52-3, pl.7 for other jade carvings of finger citrons.