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A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ‘PHOENIX’
WATERPOT AND DROPPER
17TH CENTURY
the bird recumbent with legs neatly tucked beneath the body and wings
folded across the back and over the curled and incised tail feathers, the head
raised looking sharply over its back, the cylindrical dropper surmounted by a
curled chilong, the stone of pale celadon tone with areas of russet
(2)
. , ⅛ .
EXHIBITED
Summer Exhibition, Roger Keverne, London, 2004, cat. no. 77.
£ 8,000-12,000
HK$ 77,500-116,000 US$ 10,000-14,900
Summer Exhibition Roger Keverne 2004 77
For footnote see p. 131
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