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A RARE PAIR OF ELABORATELY CARVED SEMI-TRANSLUCENT GREEN JADE
CYLINDRICAL LANTERNS
The sides are carved in low relief with various birds in a landscape setting of trees and plants, between
recessed pierced borders of lotus scroll, and raised on six phoenix-form supports, all below a separately
carved upper collar carved with panels of fowers of the seasons set between further pierced lotus-scroll
borders and separated by narrow posts terminating at the bottom in the curved body of a phoenix and
at the top in a projecting phoenix head suspending a tassel, each post connected on the interior to an
openwork structure of upper and lower spokes radiating from fower heads at the top and bottom of a
central post which is threaded at the top to screw into the petal-carved base of a ring attached to an oval
link. The semi-translucent stone is of bright mottled green color.
14æ in. (37.5 cm.) high
(2)
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE
A Highly Important Collection of Chinese Jades: The Property of A Lady; Christie’s, London, 29 June 1959,
lot 139.
碧玉鳳首花鳥紋燈籠一對

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