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A pale green jade ‘mythical beast’ hanging A pale green jade flattened baluster vase
133 vase and cover
166 | Bonhams 18th century Ming Dynasty
The elaborately carved flattened vase with The pale green stone with minor grey flecking
gently bulging sides, each finely incised with and incised around the central band with a
a taotie mask beneath a medallion with the continuous leafy meander issuing two fully
Eight Buddhist Trigrams on a leiwen ground, blossoming lotus and two half-opening
one handle formed as the head of a horned blooms, above stiff lappets at the foot and
mythical beast with two curling fins and incised beneath a further half-lotus on each side of
with archaistic C-scrolls, the other handle as the the neck, flanked by two mythical-beast loose-
squared scrolling tail of the beast suspending a ring handles, the cover similarly carved with
loose ring, all suspended from two loose rings half lotus and the finial shaped as a standing
attached to a flattened looping handle, wood Buddhist lion.
stand. 21.7cm (8 5/8in) high (2).
14cm (5½in) high (2). £2,000 - 3,000
£4,000 - 6,000 HK$24,000 - 35,000 CNY19,000 - 28,000
HK$47,000 - 71,000 CNY38,000 - 56,000
明 青玉雕纏枝蓮紋雙獸耳活環蓋瓶
十八世紀 青玉雕饕餮紋瑞獸耳活環提梁瓶
Provenance: an English private collection
Provenance: an English private collection
來源：英國私人收藏
來源：英國私人收藏
Compare a related white jade vase and cover,
Ming Dynasty, illustrated in Zheng Xinmiao,
ed., Compendium of Collections in the Palace
Museum: Jade 7 - Ming Dynasty, Beijing, 2010,
pl.8.
