A CHINESE 'CHICKEN BONE' JADE LOBED TWO-HANDLED... Lot n° 352

A CHINESE 'CHICKEN BONE' JADE LOBED TWO-HANDLED VASE QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY The handles carved with bats and vine, with Reginald Howard Reed Palmer (R.H.R.P) label numbered '71'11.5cm highProvenance:Mallet, London, December 1927, purchased for £21-0-0, as recorded in the RHRP Jade and Hardstones ledger as no. J 71The Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection, no. J 71 The RHRP ledger describes the piece as: 'Brown striated jade 2 handled vase, the handles carved with bats and vine. Appears to have been burnt. Chinese.'There have been a number of theories put forward as to the history of its appearance. One suggestion is that it is a survivor of a fire deliberately started by the eunuchs in a pavilion of the Forbidden City to prevent the last emperor (Puyi) from carrying out an inventory to discover what had been stolen by the eunuchs; another hypothesis is that the original piece was quite a bit larger and was deliberately cut down after being damaged in a fire so as to save and display the beautifully carved handles.清十八世紀 雞骨白玉雙耳杯拍品來源：英國帕瑪家族顯赫私人收藏，1927年12月以21磅的價格購自知名古董商Mallet，檔案收藏編號為J71號