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Lot 649

A CELADON JADE 'CHILONG AND PHOENIX' DOUBLE VASE GROUP, QING DYNASTY, 18TH / EARLY
19TH CENTURY
Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 USD

A CELADON JADE 'CHILONG AND PHOENIX' DOUBLE VASE GROUP
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY
清十八 / 十九世紀初 青玉雕龍鳳紋夔龍耳活環雙聯瓶

the group impressively carved carved from a single stone, comprised of a baluster vase with a globular midsection bearing a taotie
frieze all set over a waisted foot and surmounted by a columnar neck set with a pair of kuilong-form double handles each
suspending a loose ring, a sinuous chilong ascending the neck and peering over the rim, its body carved in the round, the adjoining
vase of cong form set atop an integral square-scroll stand, an openwork phoenix perched atop a lingzhi leaning against the side of
the cong and looking up at a wafting cloud, the stone a translucent pale green with icy inclusions, wood stand with inlaid silver wire
details (2)

Height 6⅝ in., 16.8 cm

Provenance
Collection of Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918).
American Art Association, New York, 27th January 1919, lot 180.
Collection of William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), and thence by descent.

來源
Rufus E. Moore (1840-1918) 收藏
美國藝術聯盟，紐約，1919年1月27日，編號180

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