A RARE PAIR OF PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE OPENWORK 'PHOENIX' PLAQUES

YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

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A RARE PAIR OF PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE OPENWORK 'PHOENIX' PLAQUES
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
Each flat, triangular plaque is carved in openwork with a phoenix with long tail feathers with serrated edges shown amidst the leaves of the bamboo cane on which it stands. The front has a high polish, while the plain reverse has a satiny polish.
3½ in. (9 cm.) wide (2)

Provenance

Lizzadro Collection, Chicago, Illinois, acquired prior to 1960.

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Lot Essay

These rare plaques are similar in their triangular shape and style of carving to a single openwork plaque, also centered by a phoenix, shown amidst scrolling peony, rather than the bamboo of the present plaques, dated to the Yuan dynasty, and illustrated by Bo Zhongmo, Guyu Jingying (The Art of Jade Carving in Ancient China), Taiwan, 1989/1990, p. 253, no. 158. On all three plaques the tail feathers of the phoenix have serrated edges, and the simple rendering of the eye is the same.

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