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九 90. Imperial archaic-style large vase of hu form with openwork dragon handles, carved on the body with a relief wide band of taotie masks

十 amongst scrolls between bands of cicada-form lappets, all on a gently splayed foot with flat lipped edge, the stone spinach with darker

and lighter markings.
饕 10 ⅞ inches, 27.6 cm high.
餮 The underside with an incised six-character mark Da Qing Jiaqing fangu, ‘Great Qing dynasty Jiaqing in imitation of the antique’, and
紋 of the period, 1796-1820.
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耳 • From an important English private collection.
壺 • Purchased from Stanley Charles Nott, Bury Street, London, in 1946 or 1947.

碧 • A similar imperial marked vase is illustrated by Xu Xiao Dong in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Jade, Vol.
玉 10, Qing Dynasty, Gu Gong Inventory no. Gu 92704, no. 20, p. 46; another archaic-style vessel with loose ring handles bearing

an identical fangu mark is illustrated by Xu Xiao Dong, op. cit. Gu Gong Inventory no. Gu 103349, no. 19, p. 45; a further

嘉 rounded archaic-style vase with an identical mark is illustrated by Christopher Knapton in the Spink exhibition of Chinese Jade,
慶 1998, no. 2, pp. 8/9.

• A spinach jade square archaic-style vase with identical mark in the Qing Court collection is illustrated by Zhang Guang Wen in

「 The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (III), Vol. 42, no. 150, p. 183.

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