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Lot 138

Sale 6418 - Asian Works of Art
Sep 19, 2025 10:00AM ET
Live / New York
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$2,000 - 4,000
Price Realized
$2,304
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Lot Description

A Chinese Chenxiang Beaded Bracelet and Pewter Covered Box, Qing Dynasty
清 沉香手串附錫盒
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)

The bracelet is comprised of a larger 'mother bead' and 19 smaller beads, stored in a fitted tin bi disc-shaped covered box inscribed with flowering prunus branches and characters, signed Weiyang Zhang Zhenyuan.
款識:幾生修到。維揚(揚州)張振遠。
”幾生修到“化用南宋遺民謝枋得《武夷山中》:“十年無夢得還家,獨立青峰野水涯。天地寂寥山雨歇,幾生修得到梅花?”

按《清秘藏》:“凡琪楠、沉水等香,居常以錫盒盛,諸香花蜂蜜養之,則氣味尤美,其盒中格置香,花開時雜以諸香花,下格置蜜,上施蓋焉,中格必穿數孔,如龍眼大,所以使蜜氣上升也,蜜一斤,用沉香四兩,細剉如小赤豆大,和勻用之,則所養之香,百倍市肆中者矣。”
Length: 12 5/8 in., 32 cm; Average Diameter of Beads: approximately 11/16 in., 1.7 cm.

Property from the Collection of Mr. David Curry, Chicago, Illinois.

This lot is located in New York.

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