SONG-MING DYNASTY (AD 960-1644)

Details

A SMALL GREYISH-WHITE JADE ZHI-FORM VASE
SONG-MING DYNASTY (AD 960-1644)
3 1/2 in. (8.8 cm) high

Provenance

Paul Toller Collection.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.

Literature

Oriental Ceramic Society, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, London, 1960, no. 273, pl. 90.
Oriental Ceramic Society, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, London, 1975, p. 98, no. 313.

Exhibited

London, Oriental Ceramic Society, Arts of the Song Dynasty, 1960.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Oriental Ceramic Society, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, 1975.

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Lot Essay

This jade vase is made in imitation of a bronze zhi, a ritual wine vessel originally made in bronze in the Shang dynasty. For a published example of jade archaistic zhi-form vase of larger size (4 7/8 in.), see Chinese Jades: Archaic and Modern from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Vermont/Japan, 1989, pp. 138-39, no. 175. This jade vase can also be compared with a small pale greyish-green jade archaistic vase in similar size, dated to the Song-Ming dynasty, 13th-16th century, sold at Christie's New York, 13 September 2018, lot 904.

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