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

Lot 217

A LARGE GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC GUI -FORM CENSER, MING DYNASTY
Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 USD

A LARGE GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC GUI-FORM CENSER
MING DYNASTY
明 青玉簋式爐

the compressed body carved with four rows of bosses, the sides set with a pair of loop handles each issuing from a ferocious
dragon mask and suspending a hooked tab, the waisted neck centered with tiger-masks and vertical flanges in high relief against a
ground of incised abstract motifs, the slightly splayed foot with similar flanges, the stone a celadon-green tone with natural
fissures

Width 8⅞ in., 22.8 cm

Provenance
Yamanaka & Co., New York.
American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, 4th December 1929, lot 79.
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源
山中商會，紐約
American Art Association Anderson Galleries，Inc.，紐約，1929年12月4日，編號79
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

Catalogue Note

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