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A RARE CHINESE ARCHAISTIC CELADON JADEITE A CHINESE CELADON JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE
‘TWELVE SYMBOLS’ TABLET 18 /19 CENTURY
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QING DYNASTY Of flattened form, the rim carved in relief with two stylised phoenix masks
Formed as a gui sceptre and bi disc, the gui decorated with the Twelve above loop handles which suspend loose rings, the central ovoid section
Symbols, the bi carved in relief with many raised bosses, the stone with some contained within bands of raised lappets, with russet and white inclusions in
russet inclusions and white mottling, together with a wood stand, 21.9cm. (2) the stone, together with an openwork wood stand with a paper label reading
£8,000-12,000 ‘8’ to the underside, 19cm. (2)
Provenance: from an English private collection, Hampshire, purchased c.1960. £800-1,200
Cf. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (III), Provenance: from a European private collection.
pp.160-161, no.129 for another jade gui decorated with the Twelve Treasures; 十八/十九世紀 青白玉雕鳳銜環瓶
see also Sotheby’s New York, 15th September 2015, lot 200 for another
comparable piece with this design; see also J Rawson, Chinese Jade from the 來源：歐洲私人收藏。
Neolithic to the Qing, p.92, fig.88 for a Ming dynasty jade also formed as a gui
combined with a bi in the British Museum, museum no.1947,0712.495.
The Twelve Symbols, or Twelve Ornaments, are comprised of the sun with the
three-legged crow, the moon with the moon rabbit pounding the elixir of life, a
constellation of three stars, a sacred mountain or rock, a dragon, a pheasant,
sacrificial vessels, a spray of waterweed, flames, grains, an axe, and the figure fu.
清 翡翠雕十二章圭璧
來源：英國漢普郡私人收藏，購於1960年代。

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