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17TH CENTURY
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A WELL-CARVED WHITE AND RUSSET JADE POURING VESSEL
17th Century
Well hollowed and finely carved as a gnarled tree trunk carved in high relief with a chilong climbing up one side towards the spout and with smaller chilong slithering amidst and through the bark of the blossoming prunus branches sprouting from the large gnarled branch that forms a handle or grip on the other side, the softly polished, translucent stone of white tone with cloudy inclusions and russet striations and skin
4in. (12cm.) high, wood stand
17th Century
Well hollowed and finely carved as a gnarled tree trunk carved in high relief with a chilong climbing up one side towards the spout and with smaller chilong slithering amidst and through the bark of the blossoming prunus branches sprouting from the large gnarled branch that forms a handle or grip on the other side, the softly polished, translucent stone of white tone with cloudy inclusions and russet striations and skin
4in. (12cm.) high, wood stand
Exhibited
San Antonio, Texas, San Antonio Museum of Art, Reverence of Stone; An Exhibition of Chinese Jade from the Godfrey Collection, 1986
Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Art Institute, Stones of Virtue, Chinese Jades from the Gerald Godfrey Collection, January, 1989, no. 233
Dayton, Ohio, The Dayton Art Institute, Stones of Virtue, Chinese Jades from the Gerald Godfrey Collection, January, 1989, no. 233