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A CELADON JADE RECTANGULAR BALUSTER VASE AND COVER, the waisted neck with two lion-mask handles suspending loose-rings and carved in shallow relief with cicada panels containing archaistic scrolling motifs, each side of the body carved in medium relief with wandering figures and pavilions in a hilly landscape with pines and other trees issuing from rocky outcrops, the narrow sides similarly carved with trees and rocks, all between key-pattern around the rim and flaring foot, the cover with cicada panels and surmounted by a rectangular finial, the stone of pale celadon tone with well-used russet inclusions (minute chips),
Qianlong
34.5cm. high, gilt bronze stand
Qianlong
34.5cm. high, gilt bronze stand