A VERY PALE GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE AND COVER, FANGLEI Late Qing Dynasty/Republic period
A VERY PALE GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE AND COVER, FANGLEI
Late Qing Dynasty/Republic period
Modelled after an archaic bronze fanglei, of rectangular section with wide shoulders tapering towards the splayed foot, the body carved with taotie masks, between flanges, the shoulders set with ruyi sceptre handles, the cover surmounted by a chi dragon finial whose tail connects by a delicately carved linked chain to a lion head ring handle at the body's midpoint, hongmu stand.
19.7cm (7 3/4in) high.
Footnotes:
清晚期/民國 玉雕仿古方罍
Provenance: Evaristo Caretti (1879-1955), China and Italy, and thence by descent
Noted in a valuation conducted by Robert Kleiner in 1988
This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * Y
* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the UK, see clause 13.
For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
A VERY PALE GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE AND COVER, FANGLEI
Late Qing Dynasty/Republic period
Modelled after an archaic bronze fanglei, of rectangular section with wide shoulders tapering towards the splayed foot, the body carved with taotie masks, between flanges, the shoulders set with ruyi sceptre handles, the cover surmounted by a chi dragon finial whose tail connects by a delicately carved linked chain to a lion head ring handle at the body's midpoint, hongmu stand.
19.7cm (7 3/4in) high.
Footnotes:
清晚期/民國 玉雕仿古方罍
Provenance: Evaristo Caretti (1879-1955), China and Italy, and thence by descent
Noted in a valuation conducted by Robert Kleiner in 1988
This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: * Y
* VAT on imported items at a preferential rate of 5% on Hammer Price and the prevailing rate on Buyer's Premium.
Y Subject to CITES regulations when exporting items outside of the UK, see clause 13.
For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com
