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Gerald Godfrey
S Bernstein Co

Stones of Virtue Chinese Jades from the Gerald

Godfrey Collection Dayton Art Institute

1989 363

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A PALE GREEN JADE ‘BUDDHA’S HAND 227
CITRON’ BRUSH WASHER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH / EARLY 19TH
CENTURY

naturalistically carved with the oval well encompassed by the
long ‘ ngers’ of the fruit, their coiled tips converging into a
tapered formation at one end, openwork stems and a smaller
citron issuing at the opposite end, two high-relief bats peering
toward the mouth of the vessel, the stone of a pale celadon
color, wood stand (2)
Length 4 in., 10.1 cm

$ 8,000-12,000

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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

A RARE MUGHAL-STYLE PALE CELADON
JADE VASE
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

of attened baluster form, supported on a thinly carved petal-
form foot with further layers of petals cascading up the body
and culminating in vertical handles anking the waisted foliate
neck and mouth, the attened sides nely carved with pairs of
leafy sprays, the stone of pale celadon-green color with milky-
white inclusions and faint russet veins primarily to one side
Height 3⅜ in., 8.6 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Erik Hancock (according to label).

$ 8,000-12,000

Erik Hancock

228 No Lot