TWO GREEN JADE MYTHICAL BEAST CARVINGS
TWO GREEN JADE MYTHICAL BEAST CARVINGS
The first a fanciful rhyton cup of pale spinach green hue, the thinly polished walls issuing from a deeply undercut chimera's body, the base bearing a four-character Qianlong mark; the second an olive-green recumbent fu-lion grasping in its jaws the ribbons tied to an embroidered ball, the lion's coat covered with archaistic scrolls and vases.
9 1/4in (23.5cm) length of each (2).
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TWO GREEN JADE MYTHICAL BEAST CARVINGS
The first a fanciful rhyton cup of pale spinach green hue, the thinly polished walls issuing from a deeply undercut chimera's body, the base bearing a four-character Qianlong mark; the second an olive-green recumbent fu-lion grasping in its jaws the ribbons tied to an embroidered ball, the lion's coat covered with archaistic scrolls and vases.
9 1/4in (23.5cm) length of each (2).