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PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION, PREDOMINANTLY ACQUIRED IN THE
                                        1950s AND 1960s

1016                                                                              PROVENANCE:

A SPINACH GREEN JADE TWO-HANDLED VASE                                             Christie’s London, 29 March 1965, lot 58.
19TH CENTURY                                                                      Private English Collection, predominantly acquired in the 1950s and 1960s.

清十九世紀 碧玉纏枝蓮紋鳳耳扁瓶                                                                  來源:於1965年3月29日倫敦佳士得拍賣,拍品第58號

The vase is carved to each side with a circular section enclosing elaborate       Compare the current vase to another spinach jade vase of similar ‘pilgrim fask’
lotus scrolls. The neck is carved and pierced with two phoenix-form handles       form with loose ring handles, dating to the Qianlong period, illustrated by
with loose rings. The stone is of an attractive spinach green tone with areas of  Stanley Charles Nott in Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, London, 1936, pl. CX.
mottled and streaked blackish inclusions.

10√ in. (27.7 cm.) high, carved wood stand

£10,000-15,000                              $16,000-23,000
                                            €14,000-20,000

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