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AN AMERICAN
221 PRIVATE
212 SOTHEBY’S COLLECTION

LOTS 220 226

220

A ‘CHICKEN BONE’ JADE BRUSHPOT
17TH CENTURY

of conical form broadening at the mouth, the body
modeled self-referentially as a rock with surface
textures and hollows carefully carved, a pine tree in
high relief wrapping around one side of the vase, a
mythical beast carved in the round climbing the other
side, the light gray jade stippled and veined with tan
and dark gray inclusions
Height 6⅝ in., 16.7 cm

PROVENANCE
S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco.

$ 20,000-30,000

S Bernstein Co

221

A BLACK JADE ARCHAISTIC HU-FORM
VASE
19TH / 20TH CENTURY

the pear-shaped body rising from a tall spreading
foot, at the neck two openwork handles in the form of
a mythical beasts scaling the vessel, the body carved
with four registers of interlaced kuilong and a fth
register of vertical lappets, ‘twisted rope’ bands dividing
the registers, the stone black with two white passages
Height 9¼ in., 23.5 cm

PROVENANCE
S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco.
The formal origins of this vase are to be found in deep
antiquity, with the shape and ornament inspired by
bronze hu vessels of the Eastern Zhou period (770-221
BC), which themselves nd their precedent as early
as the Anyang phase of the Shang dynasty (ca. 1300-
1056 BC). Ancient bronze hu functioned as ritual wine
vessels and were cast for use in certain ceremonies
and in commemoration of speci c events.

$ 30,000-50,000

S Bernstein Co