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(US$13,000-20,000)
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A YELLOW JADE TWIN VASE GROUP
FIRST HALF OF 19TH CENTURY
The even semi-translucent stone suffused with patches of paler white and light amber tone, finely carved as a gu beside a smaller archaistic ewer, the cover surmounted by a rodent, supported on the back of a winged chimera grasping a dragon-headed snake with it's claws below a chilong clambering to the sides of each vessel
5 3/8 in. (14.5 cm.) high, stand, box
FIRST HALF OF 19TH CENTURY
The even semi-translucent stone suffused with patches of paler white and light amber tone, finely carved as a gu beside a smaller archaistic ewer, the cover surmounted by a rodent, supported on the back of a winged chimera grasping a dragon-headed snake with it's claws below a chilong clambering to the sides of each vessel
5 3/8 in. (14.5 cm.) high, stand, box