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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK ESTATE
1761
A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE DOUBLE VASE AND COVER
19TH CENTURY
The main vase is of fattened baluster form, with a domed cover, openwork
scroll handles fanking the neck, and a band of archaistic taotie motifs carved
on the body. The smaller vase is in the form of a prunus tree trunk, with a crane
grasping a plum blossom spray in its beak carved on the lower body. The two
vases are joined by branches of plum blossoms carved in high relief. The semi-
translucent stone is of an even, pale greenish-white color.
7Ω in. (19 cm.) high
$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1903-1976), by repute.
清十九世紀 青白玉浮雕博古雙聯瓶

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