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Junkunc: Chinese Jade Carvings
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 09:30 AM EDT

Lot 259

A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ARCHAISTIC HANGING VASE AND COVER, 17TH CENTURY OR
EARLIER
Estimate: 100,000 - 150,000 USD

A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ARCHAISTIC HANGING VASE AND COVER
17TH CENTURY OR EARLIER
十七世紀或更早 青玉雕仿古提梁卣

of archaistic you form, the flattened pear-shaped body raised on a slightly splayed foot, the neck flanked by a pair of stylized ruyi
handles interlinked with a long arched swing handle, carved around the body with a broad band of vertical ribs between bands of
scrolls, the domed cover with a band of pendent lappets surmounted by a lotus bud-form finial, the stone of a pale greenish-
celadon tone with areas of russet and natural inclusions (2)

Height 8⅜ in., 21.2 cm

Provenance
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Catalogue Note
This vessel embodies the endless creativity of Qing craftsmen in its modernization of an archaic form and design. Continuing the
Song tradition of reinterpreting large archaic ritual bronzes into relatively small jade vessels, this you form vase is carved with two

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