Page 74 - 2019 September 10th Sotheby's Important Chinese Art Jades, Met Museum Irving Collection NYC

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暚 SPINACH-GREEN JADE
漵 ‘DRAGON’ WASHER
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䒖 QING DYNASTY
the naturally undulating sides boldly carved to the exterior with
a pair of dragons striding toward the rim to contest a ‘Flaming
Pearl’, each dragon with bulging eyes, the face framed by a
bushy mane and long whiskers, the long muscular body covered
in scales and snaking over and under splashing waves and
swirling clouds, the surrounding ground covered with a dense
network of spiraling cloud wisps, all above surging waves rising
from the turbid sea covering the base, the interior hollowed and
incised at the well with a forty-eight-character poem composed
by the Qianlong Emperor in the jichou year, corresponding to
1769, followed by two carved seals, the stone a semi-translucent
moss-green with a few areas of opaque beige, burlwood stand
(2)

Length 11⅞ in., 30.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Gamble North, Esq.
Sotheby’s London, 18th June 1968, lot 150.
Sotheby’s London, 13th November 1979, lot 236.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 25th November 1980.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016)
Irving, no. 214.
$ 100,000-150,000

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