29. A fine Chinese ivory box and cover Qianlong 1736-95, carved as a peach with elaborate gnarled branches and foliage issuing from a stalk to one end, and with a single bat clambering around the side of the box, the cover with a border of foliage, a few small chips, 8.8cm. (2)
£20,000-30,000 Provenance: from an English private collection.
Cf. Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing: An Exhibition Organised by the Oriental Ceramic Society and jointly with the British Museum, no.193 for a related peach box and cover from the Victor Sassoon Chinese Ivories Trust.