A FINE LARGE ARCHAISTIC JADEITE VASE AND COVER

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A FINE LARGE ARCHAISTIC JADEITE VASE AND COVER

The flecked pale apple-green stone with bright inclusions carved as a rectangular vase with taotie masks on either side flanked by openwork panels comprising dragons, and by intricate dragon-head and double-loop handles suspending loose rings, all supported on four animal-paw feet issuing from monster-masks below reticulated columns with earth spirits surmounted by a curled chilong, the cover with a quatrefoil panel formed by two more chilong above smaller lion-mask and ring handles and taotie masks--13¾in. (35cm.) high, stand

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