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A CARNELIAN AND CHALCEDONY AGATE DOUBLE TREE-TRUNK VASE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
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A CARNELIAN AND CHALCEDONY AGATE DOUBLE TREE-TRUNK VASE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The vase carved with two mouth openings joined below by a partial wall, the white chalcedony areas of the stone used for the vase and the soft reddish carnelian areas of the stone used for the fruit-laden peach branch and lingzhi fungus carved in high relief around the sides, as well as a small bat on a gnarled area of the trunk and a phoenix grasping a lingzhi stalk in its beak at rest on a branch at the rim; together with a yellowish-ivory serpentine ruyi sceptre
6¼ and 10¼ in. (16 and 26 cm.) long (2)
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The vase carved with two mouth openings joined below by a partial wall, the white chalcedony areas of the stone used for the vase and the soft reddish carnelian areas of the stone used for the fruit-laden peach branch and lingzhi fungus carved in high relief around the sides, as well as a small bat on a gnarled area of the trunk and a phoenix grasping a lingzhi stalk in its beak at rest on a branch at the rim; together with a yellowish-ivory serpentine ruyi sceptre
6¼ and 10¼ in. (16 and 26 cm.) long (2)