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A RARE GREENISH-GREY JADE
VESSEL, FANGDING
18TH CENTURY
The rectangular body is raised on four
dragon-form supports and carved on
each side with a taotie mask below a
pair of confronted long-tailed birds on
the long sides and dragons on the ends,
all divided by notched fanges carved
with key-fret repeated on the the rim
and bail handles, and with scrolled
fanges at the corners.
8¬ in. (22 cm.) high, wood cover with
carnelian agate fnial, wood stand
$20,000-30,000
A very similar fangding, including
the scrolled fanges at the corners,
is illustrated in a Yongzheng period
handscroll of Chinese antiquities,
dated to 1728, now in the collection
of the Percival David Foundation,
British Museum.
清十八世紀 青白玉饕餮紋方鼎
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