A VERY FINE JADEITE HANGING VASE, COVER AND DISPLAY STAND

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A VERY FINE JADEITE HANGING VASE, COVER AND DISPLAY STAND
LATE QING DYNASTY

The flattened archaistic pear-shaped vase supported within the back of a standing phoenix suspending a loose ring below its beak, the shoulder with a medium-relief archaistic mask between chilong handles linked to an arched overhead confronted dragon handle and chain-link cover, the stone with numerous veins of brilliant emerald-green running through the highly translucent apple-green to pale celadon ground, the elaborate bone stand carved in openwork with lingzhi, chilong and archaistic scrollwork around the base and suspending the vase via a jadeite floral pendant (several tiny nicks to edges of carving, age cracks to stand)
10 5/8 in. (27 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A less elaborate jadeite hanging vessel of this form was included in the National Museum of History, Taibei, exhibition, The Jade Carving Art in The Ch'ing Dynasty, Catalogue, p. 89. Compare also to a similar shaped jadeite vase formerly in the T.Y. Chao Collection, sold in these Rooms, 15 October 1993, lot 10.
(US$200,000-300,000)

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