Property from the Collection of Colonel Tom HallA large pale celadon jade peach-shaped box and coverQing dynasty, Qianlong period(2)Length 15 cm, 5 7/8 in.__________________________________________________________________________Collection du Colonel Tom Hall (1928-2022) Grande boîte en jade céladon pale en forme de pêche, dynastie Qing, époque Qianlong__________________________________________________________________________Tom Hall上校 (1928-2022) 珍藏清乾隆 青白玉桃式蓋盒来源: John Sparks Ltd., London (label). __________________________________________________________________________倫敦斯賓克（標簽）专文: A similar box, of a smaller size, in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in Ming Wilson, Chinese Jades, London, 2004, no. 58, pp. 56-57; two similar examples, both formerly from F.O. Matthiessen Collection, are now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, one on view in Gallery 222 (acc. no. 04.6.26a, b) the other in storage (04.6.16a, b); compare also two similar jade pieces, both sold at Christie`s New York, 29th June 2021, lot 108; and 23rd March 2023, lot 925; also a large white jade ‘Peach and Bat’ group, illustrated in The Woolf Collection of Chinese Jade, London, 2013, pl. 81, p. 190.