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A fine pale green jade ‘chilong’ brush washer
18th century
Carved as a shallow oval dish with a shallow recessed base and two
chilong clambering around the longer sides with faces and front paws
peeping over the rim, the interior with a pearl issuing two fire scrolls,
wood stand.
13.5cm (5¼in) long (2).
£5,000 - 8,000
HK$62,000 - 100,000 CNY49,000 - 79,000
十八世紀 青玉雕螭龍紋洗
Compare a related smaller white jade oval ‘chilong’ washer, Qianlong
seal mark and period, from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadeware
II, Beijing, 2008, pl.191; and for another, slightly larger, related white
jade ‘chilong’ washer, Qianlong mark and period, from the Qing Court
Collection, see Zheng Xinmiao, ed., Compendium of Collections in the
Palace Museum - Jade, Qing Dynasty, vol.10, Beijing, 2010, pl.188.
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A green and russet jade archaistic pouring vessel,
guang
17th century
The vessel shaped with a long flaring spout carved with archaistic
C-scrolls and rising from the central band carved on each side with a
taotie mask and C-scrolls, the spreading stepped foot similarly carved
with an archaistic frieze, a loose-ring suspended from an animal mask
beneath the lip, opposite the handle formed as a stylised chilong.
12.5cm (4 7/8in) high
£3,000 - 5,000
HK$37,000 - 62,000 CNY29,000 - 49,000
十七世紀 綠玉帶皮雕仿古紋觥