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PROPERTY FROM THE DE AN TANG COLLECTION
A WHITE JADE COVERED VASE GROUP
細節
A WHITE JADE COVERED VASE GROUP
The group is finely modelled as a majestic heron, its body well-hollowed to form a box with its upper body acting as the lid, standing on a twisted lotus branch carved in reticulation and interwoven with further lotus branches, variously growing leaves and flowers to the sides emerging from a rockwork base, further detailed with a companion heron foraging for food on the ground, all beside a cylindrical vase raised on a splayed foot, the sharply angled shoulder narrowing to a high neck, flanked by a pair of mythical beast-head handles, each suspending a loose circular ring, below the dish-shaped mouth supporting a cover surmounted by a mythical lion with one paw atop a ball, its head turned to one side with mouth agape to provide a ferocious expression, the semi-translucent stone of even white tone
9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) high, stand, box
The group is finely modelled as a majestic heron, its body well-hollowed to form a box with its upper body acting as the lid, standing on a twisted lotus branch carved in reticulation and interwoven with further lotus branches, variously growing leaves and flowers to the sides emerging from a rockwork base, further detailed with a companion heron foraging for food on the ground, all beside a cylindrical vase raised on a splayed foot, the sharply angled shoulder narrowing to a high neck, flanked by a pair of mythical beast-head handles, each suspending a loose circular ring, below the dish-shaped mouth supporting a cover surmounted by a mythical lion with one paw atop a ball, its head turned to one side with mouth agape to provide a ferocious expression, the semi-translucent stone of even white tone
9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm.) high, stand, box
來源
T. Y. Chao Family Trust, no. 154, previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 327
T. T. Tsui Collection, no. J11
T. T. Tsui Collection, no. J11