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

Lot 218

A CELADON JADE GOOSE -FORM WATERPOT AND COVER, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 USD

A CELADON JADE GOOSE-FORM WATERPOT AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
清十八世紀 青玉雕銜蓮寶鵝形水盂連蓋

finely carved as a standing goose with head turned to one side grasping a spray of furling lotus leaves in its beak, the body
hollowed with an oval opening on its back and wings tucked with incised feathers, the cover in the form of a lotus flower with a
central pod, the even celadon stone with a few russet inclusions (2)

Length 5¼ in., 13.5 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
Compare related mid-Qing dynasty examples of standing goose-form waterpots, illustrated in Yang Boda, ed., Zhongguo yuqi
quanji [The Complete Compilation of Chinese Jades], vol. 2, Shijiazhuang, 2005, pls 291-2. A further example attributed to the
18th century, with a later cover and without lotus, was sold in these rooms, 20th March 2012, lot 228. See also one attributed to

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