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A JAdeITe TRIPOd ceNseR ANd cOVeR,
lATe QINg dyNAsTy – RePublIc PeRIOd
China, 1880-1950. Finely carved and incised with archaistic dragon
bands in deep relief, two dragonhead handles with movable rings, the a deep, vivid emerald-green color, opacity, and jagged lines of lighter,
domed openwork lid with a reticulated chilong knob. The legs with sometimes white veining running through it. Jade-albite is a gemstone
imposing Buddhist lion heads. found exclusively in northern Burma. It was eventually identified in 1963
by the late Swiss gemologist, Edward Gubelin, and was named after the
village close to where it was first found in the foothills of the Himalayas,
Provenance: From the Georg Weifert Maw sit sit.
family collection. Weifert (1850-1937) was
a Serbo-Austrian industrialist and the Auction result comparison: Compare with a snuff bottle carved from the
first governor of the Federal Bank of the same type of jadeite sold at Christies Hong Kong in Important Chinese Snuff
Kingdom of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia. Bottles from a Distinguished American Collection, 7 October 2014, lot 4,
condition: The stone with several sold for HKD $300,000.
intrinsic fissures and associated losses
due to erosion, both of which show areas
of old filling. Extensive wear, some traces 翡翠三足蓋爐，清末民初
中國，1880-1950。精細浮雕的仿古龍紋，活動的龍頭雙環，爐蓋鏤空，螭龍鈕。氣
of use and a nicely grown patina. Georg Weifert (1850-1937)
勢磅礴的佛獅首。
Weight: 1,410 g 來源：Georg Weifert (1850-1937)收藏，同一家族保存至今 。Weifert曾爲塞爾維
亞中央銀行大班以及塞爾維亞、克羅地亞與斯洛文尼亞聯邦銀行大班。
Dimensions: Length 19.5 cm from handle to handle
品相：翡翠有一些固有裂縫以及由於侵蝕而造成的相關損失，可見舊的填充區域。大
量磨損，使用痕跡和良好的包漿。
Mineralogy: The mottled opaque stone is of deep and vivid emerald-green 重量：1,410 克
tones with paler veining and striations across the body. It has a hardness 尺寸：從執柄到執柄長 19.5 厘米
of 6.5 on the Mohs scale and is a quintessential example of a distinctive
type of jadeite called jade-albite which was carved into a number of Chinese estimate euR 1.000,-
works of art beginning in the nineteenth century. It is characterized by Starting price EUr 500,-

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