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THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN FAMILY
A RARE LARGE PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE LINGZHI-FORM VESSEL
18TH CENTURY
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A RARE LARGE PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE LINGZHI-FORM VESSEL
18TH CENTURY
Well carved as a large lingzhi fungus head borne on a gnarled, branching stem that forms the openwork base and continues up the sides where two chilong stand atop two of the smaller fungus heads and two bats are shown in flight below the rim where a scaly dragon stalks a flaming pearl, the semi-translucent stone of quite even pale greenish-white tone with a few small areas of opaque mottling
7½ in. (19 cm.) high, wood stand
18TH CENTURY
Well carved as a large lingzhi fungus head borne on a gnarled, branching stem that forms the openwork base and continues up the sides where two chilong stand atop two of the smaller fungus heads and two bats are shown in flight below the rim where a scaly dragon stalks a flaming pearl, the semi-translucent stone of quite even pale greenish-white tone with a few small areas of opaque mottling
7½ in. (19 cm.) high, wood stand