LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY

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A GREYISH-WHITE AND RUSSET JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE
LATE MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The flattened zun-form vase is raised on a tall spreading foot, and the sides are carved in low relief with taotie masks divided and separated by flanges below a rope-twist band and further taotie masks flanked by scroll handles on the neck. Further flanges divide blades on the flared mouth and foot. The semi-translucent stone is of greyish-white tone with some areas of russet and milky white inclusions.
6¼ in. (15.7 cm.) high

Provenance

C.T. Loo, New York, 10 May 1950.
Harry B. Braude, Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Lot Essay

This jade vase exhibits the kind of archaism sometimes seen on late Ming jade vessels, such as the similarly dated zun-form jade vase of related shape, also with taotie masks and flanges on the body, in the British Museum, illustrated by J. Rawson in Chinese Jade, British Museum, 1995, p. 388, fig. 6. A similar zun-form vase shown in a line drawing from Wu Dacheng's Guyu tukao, compiled in 1889, is illustrated by S. C. Nott in Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, London, 1937, p. 43, fig. 34.

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