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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 650

A CELADON JADE 'DRAGON' VASE AND COVER, QING DYNASTY, 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTUR Y
Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 USD

A CELADON JADE 'DRAGON' VASE AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / EARLY 19TH CENTURY
清十八 / 十九世紀初 青玉浮雕趕珠龍紋花卉圖蓋瓶

of flattened hu form supported on a stepped foot and surmounted by a galleried rim, the shoulders supporting a five-clawed
dragon prowling in pursuit of a 'Flaming Pearl', the animal's body carved in the round with undercut and openwork details, one side
of the vase carved in low relief with a blossoming prunus tree, the other side with flowering peony and a butterfly, the domed cover
with a rope-twist oval finial, the stone a translucent gray-green tone with icy inclusions, zitan stand inlaid with silver wire (3)

Height 7⅞ in., 20 cm

Provenance
The Wong Yua Shi Collection.
Anderson Galleries, New York, 13th-16th March 1918, lot 364.
Collection of William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), and thence by descent.

來源
Wong Yua Shi 收藏
安德森畫廊，紐約，1918年3月13至16日，編號364
William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930) 收藏，此後家族傳承

Catalogue Note

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-chinese-art?locale=en 227/435