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AN EXCEPTIONAL AND MASSIVE WHITE JADE OCTAGONAL
VASE AND COVER

QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

清乾隆 白玉龍鳳慶壽靈芝鈕雙活環耳八方蓋瓶

of octagonal section and generous proportions, the 來源：
substantial and attractive white boulder superbly worked 倫敦蘇富比1969年7月1日，編號58
with an ovoid body sweeping up to an angled shoulder and
surmounted by a waisted neck and gallered rim, all supported
on a splayed galleried foot, the waisted neck flanked by a
pair of phoenix handles, each rendered as the mythical bird
with outstretched wings and suspending a loose ring, each
of the main sides of the facetted body decorated with a large
shou character flanked by a pair of kui dragons with angular
scrollwork bodies below a musical chime, below upright
archaistic plantain blades on the neck, the rim and foot further
incised with key-fret motifs repeated at the rim of the gently
domed cover of corresponding form, the sloping sides of the
cover bordered with pendent petals, all surmounted by an
openwork finial skilfully rendered in openwork as a pair of
lingzhi blooms issuing from a floral bloom, the lustrous stone
of an even white colour with faint icy and grey inclusions, wood
stand
34.2 cm, 13⅜ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 1st July 1969, lot 58.

HK$ 3,000,000-4,000,000
US$ 384,000-515,000