A FINELY CARVED YELLOW JADE FANGHU

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A FINELY CARVED YELLOW JADE FANGHU
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The vase is of square section raised on a slightly splayed pedestal foot. The gracefully curved undecorated body rising to a waisted neck with two sides carved with a pair of fixed mask and ring handles.
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high, wood stand, box

Provenance

P. C. Lu, Hong Kong
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 October 2000, lot 676 (part)
Harry M. Weinrebe
S. Marchant & Son, London, March 2011

Exhibited

Special Exhibition of Chinese Art, Peninsula Hotel, Hong Kong, January 1962.

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Lot Essay

The shape of the present vase is based on early Han dynasty bronzes. A nearly identical small yellow jade fanghu-shaped vessel of comparable height (11 cm.) is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 6, Shijiazhuang, 1993, no. 200, and again in Yang Boda (ed.), Chinese Jades throughout the Ages - Connoisseurship of Chinese Jades, vol. 12, Hong Kong, 1997, no. 41. Compare, also, to a white jade fanghu with elephant-head handles of similar height (10.7 cm.) in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, exhibited at The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch'ing Court, and illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, pp. 87-88, no. 15.

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