TWO PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE VESSELS
PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED DUTCH FAMILY COLLECTION
TWO PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE VESSELS

LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

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TWO PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE VESSELS
LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
One is a brush washer carved as a four-petaled flower borne on an openwork, leafy branch that forms the base and continues around the sides where it bears further flowers and buds and forms the handles at either end. The other is a shallow pedestal dish, with shallow, incurved sides carved with two rows of bosses below a flat rim carved with key fret, and the pedestal foot is carved with archaistic scrolls between four small flanges.
4 5/8 and 4 in. (11.8 and 10 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Acquired in the 1930s, and thence by descent within the family.

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