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A small spinach green jade quatrelobed vase
7025 Late Qing/Republic period
A spinach green archaistic vessel and cover, tulu Of attenuated baluster form and rectangular section with ruyi lappets
Late Qing/Republic period carved along the top of the quatrefoil rim, cicada lappets at the neck
Of rectangular section with a pair of scrolling strap handles and and a frieze of interlaced dragons encircling the body above a tall
four tubular projections at each corner terminating in waisted feet, waisted foot and deeply recessed base; the matrix of deep to light
the upper walls cut with a band of interlaced serpents above shou leaf-green with pin-point black inclusions and veins.
medallions on the front and back faces and strap-work scrolls on each 5in (12.7cm) high
leg, the conforming cover reticulated with a dragon finial and coiled $3,000 - 5,000
chilong at each corner, the matrix of richly hued and varied leaf green
dotted with tiny black inclusions. Although not made as a set, the quatrelobed shape of this vase
5 1/2in (14cm) height including cover complements the tulu shape of the covered censer in this sale. Small
5 1/4in (13.2cm) width across the handles vases of this type would have been carved to hold shovels or tongs
$5,000 - 7,000 for the censer with the matching box made to hold the incense. See
the three-piece sets in the Qing Court Collection, one set in white
This vessel is based on a tulu, an archaic container for pigments: see jade with chrysanthemum petal design, the other in spinach jade with
the late Shang bronze example with four cylindrical corner tubes, from archaistic animal decoration, illustrated in Gugong Bowuyuan Cang
the collection of Dr .Cheng Te-k’un, published in Eskenazi: Twenty five Wenwu Zhen pin Quanji 42: Yuqi 3 (The Complete Collection of the
years, 1985, no. 6, pp. 26-27. A zoomorphic jade example, with an Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing Volume 42: Jade, book 3),
animal head and neck extruding from the rectangular four-sectioned 2006, nos. 70 & 71, pp. 82-84.
body, is dated to the Western Zhou dynasty in the collection of the
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum (1943.50.636). See
Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Jades from the
Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard
University, cat. no. 185, p. 142.
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