A JADEITE CUP, A SMALL WHITE JADE CUP AND TWO JADE HAIRPINSQing Dynasty
Comprising: a jadeite cup with a peach-shaped amethyst detail added to the interior; a white jade small cup; a pale green jade hairpin with openwork bat decoration; and a pale green jade 'prunus and butterfly' hairpin.
The hairpin: 15.5cm (6 1/8in) long (4).FootnotesProvenance: Major-General Sir Ivor Philipps, K.C.B., D.S.O. (1861-1940), and thence by descent.
Major-General Sir Ivor Philipps served as an officer with the British Forces on the 'China Expeditionary Force' sent to lift the siege of the British Legation in Beijing and quell the Boxer Rebellion in 1900-1901.
清 翠玉盃, 白玉小盃及髮簪兩件
A JADEITE CUP, A SMALL WHITE JADE CUP AND TWO JADE HAIRPINSQing Dynasty
Comprising: a jadeite cup with a peach-shaped amethyst detail added to the interior; a white jade small cup; a pale green jade hairpin with openwork bat decoration; and a pale green jade 'prunus and butterfly' hairpin.
The hairpin: 15.5cm (6 1/8in) long (4).FootnotesProvenance: Major-General Sir Ivor Philipps, K.C.B., D.S.O. (1861-1940), and thence by descent.
Major-General Sir Ivor Philipps served as an officer with the British Forces on the 'China Expeditionary Force' sent to lift the siege of the British Legation in Beijing and quell the Boxer Rebellion in 1900-1901.
清 翠玉盃, 白玉小盃及髮簪兩件
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