A GREEN JADE DOUBLE TREE-TRUNK VASE

18TH/19TH CENTURY

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A GREEN JADE DOUBLE TREE-TRUNK VASE
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Carved and hollowed as sections of a pomegranate tree, the leafy branches carved in high relief around the sides bearing one large pomegranate fruit above a gnarled stem of lingzhi fungus, the semi-translucent stone of unusual soft green color with tiny black inclusions
5½ in. (14 cm.) long

Provenance

John Sparks, 1954

Lot Essay

Compare the melon-shaped brush washer carved from very similar translucent bright green nephrite in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Jade in the National Palace Museum: Supplement, Taipei, 1980, no. 25.

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