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AN INSCRIBED PALE CELADON JADE VASE AND COVER
DATED QIANLONG WU CHEN, SUMMER, CORRESPONDING TO 1748
The highly translucent stone of pale celadon tone, finely carved to the shoulder with a band of archaistic dragon-headed carp linking the loose-ring monster-mask handles above raised flanges carved as twisted rope, repeated as a border at the rims, carved to one side with a long inscription highlighted in gilt, the cover surmounted by a bulb finial with further dragon-headed carp
8 3/4in. (22.5cm.) high, stand
DATED QIANLONG WU CHEN, SUMMER, CORRESPONDING TO 1748
The highly translucent stone of pale celadon tone, finely carved to the shoulder with a band of archaistic dragon-headed carp linking the loose-ring monster-mask handles above raised flanges carved as twisted rope, repeated as a border at the rims, carved to one side with a long inscription highlighted in gilt, the cover surmounted by a bulb finial with further dragon-headed carp
8 3/4in. (22.5cm.) high, stand