18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A WHITE JADE PEAR-SHAPED POURING VESSEL AND COVER
18TH/19TH CENTURY
The slender globular vessel rising from a flat foot, carved to body with a band of archaistic scrolls, with a smaller band of diagonal geometric patterns to the neck, adorned with a projecting phoenix head suspending a loose ring to one side and a curved handle formed by elegantly curled tail feathers to ther other, the cover surmounted with a flattened pierced dragon finial suspending two further small loose rings, the stone of an even white tone
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high, wood stand

来源

The Collection of Sir Framjee Dinshaw Petit, 3rd Baronet & Lady Sylla Dinshaw Petit (Née Tata)
With John Sparks, Ltd., London, purchased 7th September 1955.

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

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The present lot is unusual for its elegantly-curved form, derived from archaic ritual bronze vessels. See for example a very similarly shaped bronze Hu vessel, dated to the Eastern Zhou dynasty (770-221 BC), formerly in the Arthur M. Sackler collection in the Smithsonian Institute, illustrated by Jenny So, Eastern Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York, 1995, p. 236, no. 39. Compare another archaic bronze Hu formerly in the collection of Mrs. Otto H. Kahn, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New york, illustrated ibid., p. 238, fig.39.1. See also a very similarly shaped and decorated white jade vessel and cover from the Collection of Important Chinese Jade formed by Major R.W. Cooper, sold Christie's London, 29 April 1963, lot 31.

The current lot is also a fine example of pouring vessels which are carved with phoenix-head decoration. Compare a white jade gong pouring vessel carved also with a phoenix-head below the spout, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Vol. III, Hong Kong, 2005, p. 168, no. 136.