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A pale green and brown jade rhyton A green jade rhyton vessel
Yongbao seal mark, Ming Dynasty 18th century
Well-hollowed, the archaistic vessel raised on four short feet formed Borne on the back of a winged horned mythical beast, the tapering
by the ears and horns of a dragon-carp with upswept tail, the vessel vessel of oval section and decorated with two playful chilong
borne out if its open mouth decorated with various registers of clambering the flanks and peaking over the rim, the stone of an even
curvilinear designs, two small high-relief chilongs clambering the side, green tone with faint horizontal, streaked creamy-white inclusions.
a further chilong peaking over the rim and constituting the handle, the 10cm (4in) high
base with incised seal mark within a double square, the stone of a
semi-translucent pale green with extensive cloudy-white and mottled £6,000 - 8,000
brown and russet inclusions. 15.5cm (16 1/8in) high CNY58,000 - 77,000
HK$71,000 - 94,000
£2,000 - 3,000
CNY19,000 - 29,000
HK$24,000 - 35,000

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