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A SMALL WHITE JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE
18TH CENTURY
Of flattened rectangular shape supported on a conforming foot, the body decorated with a wide register of raised bosses bordered and further divided by narrow key-pattern bands, carved in high relief with two scaly dragons, the larger forming the handle to one side, the other borne on vapour as it climbs up the lower half of the vase, with further clouds and a flaming pearl spilling over the edge of the rim, the details well incised, the greyish-white stone with some pale grey inclusions (small ground foot chip)--6in. (15.2 cm.) high, wood stand
18TH CENTURY
Of flattened rectangular shape supported on a conforming foot, the body decorated with a wide register of raised bosses bordered and further divided by narrow key-pattern bands, carved in high relief with two scaly dragons, the larger forming the handle to one side, the other borne on vapour as it climbs up the lower half of the vase, with further clouds and a flaming pearl spilling over the edge of the rim, the details well incised, the greyish-white stone with some pale grey inclusions (small ground foot chip)--6in. (15.2 cm.) high, wood stand