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PROPERTY FROM THE SABET FAMILY COLLECTION
A GREYISH-GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
Details
A GREYISH-GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
The vase, of flattened pear shape, is carved on each side of the body with two pairs of bottle-horn dragons confronted on a wide band of leiwen above two pairs of sinuous dragons with backward-turned heads and below a band of interlinked foliate scroll on a leiwen ground. The neck is carved in relief on each side with two chilong flanked by leiwen-filled blades and by the pair of curved lug handles also carved with further leiwen, all below a band of key fret at the rim. The semi-translucent stone has some opaque buff mottling.
7½ in. (19 cm.), wood stand
MING DYNASTY (1368-1644)
The vase, of flattened pear shape, is carved on each side of the body with two pairs of bottle-horn dragons confronted on a wide band of leiwen above two pairs of sinuous dragons with backward-turned heads and below a band of interlinked foliate scroll on a leiwen ground. The neck is carved in relief on each side with two chilong flanked by leiwen-filled blades and by the pair of curved lug handles also carved with further leiwen, all below a band of key fret at the rim. The semi-translucent stone has some opaque buff mottling.
7½ in. (19 cm.), wood stand
Provenance
Habib Sabet, Europe and New York, 1970s, and thence by descent within the family.
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