A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE RHYTON

LATE MING/EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

Details

A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE RHYTON
LATE MING/EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The well-hollowed vessel is of an elegantly elongated curved form with a stylised phoenix handle emanating from the jaws of a mythical beast. The base is carved depicting the head of a mythical beast, detailed with its teeth bared, eyes under bushy brows, and long antlers above its finely incised mane. The body is decorated with a dense ground of 'C'-scrolls and a stylised dragon and monster-mask band between keyfret borders beneath the mouthrim. The stone ranges from pale to attractive celadon tones with russet inclusions.
5½ in. (14 cm.) long

Provenance

With Spink & Son Ltd., London, 3 December 1962.
Property from an Important Private European Collection.

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Lot Essay

This style of rhyton with a dragon mouth at the base belongs to a distinct group of jade carvings. Compare an example also carved with a dragon head to the base, illustrated by J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London, 1995, no. 29.8, which is dated 16th/17th century. Another finely carved example, dated to the mid-Qing dynasty, is illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, Qing, vol. 6, no. 41.

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