A RARE PAIR OF ELABORATELY CARVED SEMI-TRANSLUCENT GREEN JADE CYLINDRICAL LANTERNS

A RARE PAIR OF ELABORATELY CARVED SEMI-TRANSLUCENT GREEN JADE CYLINDRICAL LANTERNS
The sides are carved in low relief with various birds in a landscape setting of trees and plants, between recessed pierced borders of lotus scroll, and raised on six phoenix-form supports, all below a separately carved upper collar carved with panels of flowers of the seasons set between further pierced lotus-scroll borders and separated by narrow posts terminating at the bottom in the curved body of a phoenix and at the top in a projecting phoenix head suspending a tassel, each post connected on the interior to an openwork structure of upper and lower spokes radiating from flower heads at the top and bottom of a central post which is threaded at the top to screw into the petal-carved base of a ring attached to an oval link. The semi-translucent stone is of bright mottled green color.
14 ¾ in. (37.5 cm.) high