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AN AMBER ‘DRAGON AND PHOENIX’ 清十八世紀 琥珀浮雕龍鳳竹節式花插
BAMBOO VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
finely carved in the form of two adjacent bamboo shoots with
leafy shoots around the sides, one face carved in openwork
with a phoenix standing on pierced rocks amongst peonies,
the reverse with two stylised dragons clambering on rocks
amongst further peony blooms, below a bird perched on the
rim of the vase, the amber of a translucent honey-brown tone,
wood stand
9 cm, 3⅝ in.
HK$ 300,000-400,000
US$ 38,300-51,000

See a larger vase of this type, carved from amber of a more
opaque colour (known in Chinese as mila), depicting crane,
deer and lingzhi amidst two bamboos and stylised rock,
in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Xu Xiaodong,
‘Qingdai Gongting hupo yishu [The Art of Amber in the Qing
Court]’,Wenwu/Chinese Cultural Relics, 2011 (3), p. 84, pl. 12.
Compare also an agate carving in the form of twin tree trunks
with a crane admist lingzhi, bamboo and prunus, sold at
Christie’s London, 20th April 1970, lot 192; and a smaller
version, with a pair of phoenix admist pine, lingzhi and prunus,
sold in these rooms, 30th October 1991, lot 333.

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