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A PALE CELADON JADE VASE This vase is notable for the restrained decoration which
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD accentuates the attractive elongated form and even tone of
the pale celadon jade. Vases of this type were used as vessels
the slightly flattened ovoid body rising from a stepped foot to to hold implements, such as a spatula and a pair of sticks, for
a tall tapering neck and lipped rim, encircled by two sets of managing an incense burner.
raised double fillets at the body and neck, and a single fillet See a smaller celadon jade vase of similar form, decorated
at the shoulders and foot, the body intricately carved in low- with animal-mask motifs between two narrow bands of
relief with archaistic scrolls interspersed between the fillets, plantain leaves, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, object
the smoothly polished stone of an even pale celadon tone with no. Zhong-Yu-00010-N000000000; and a white jade vase
some russet veining on one side carved with a xi character on the body, along with an incense
16.5 cm, 6½ in. burner and a box, from the De An Tang collection, included
in the exhibition A Romance With Jade. From The De An Tang
PROVENANCE
Collection, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2004, pl. 100.
A French private collection.
清乾隆 青白玉饕餮紋瓶
† £ 40,000-60,000
HK$ 406,000-610,000 US$ 52,000-77,500
來源
法國私人舊藏

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