A PALE CELADON JADE ARCHAISTIC EWER AND COVER

19TH CENTURY

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A PALE CELADON JADE ARCHAISTIC EWER AND COVER
19th century
The flattened rectangular body carved in low relief with peach, pine and bamboo issuing from rockwork, supported on a solid octagonal foot, one side carved with a qilin spout, opposite the scrolling loop handle, the cylindrical neck with shou roundels flanked by two small pierced discs enclosing the character ming and surmounted by a domed cover with a small knop finial
8 in. (21 cm.) high

拍品專文

This unusual shape was obviously inspired by the late Western Zhou ritual ewers he, such as the extraordinary example uncovered in Qijiacun, Fufeng, Shaanxi Province in 1963 and now displayed at the Shaanxi Provincial Museum. It is exhaustively published; see Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M.Sackler Collections, vol.II A, Washington D.C., 1990, p.108, fig.152; Li Xueqin (ed.), Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, Gongyi Meishu; Qingtongqi (The Great Treasury of Chinese Fine Arts, Arts and Crafts; Bronzes [1]), vol.4, Beijing, 1987, p.209, no.230.