A fine white jade 'phoenix' finial
Qianlong
Finely worked depicting the recumbent bird, its folded wings carved with archaistic designs in low relief and its tail feathers picked out with delicately-incised lines, the stone of white tone with minor russet and grey inclusions, wood stand.
12.6cm (5in) wide (2).
Finely worked depicting the recumbent bird, its folded wings carved with archaistic designs in low relief and its tail feathers picked out with delicately-incised lines, the stone of white tone with minor russet and grey inclusions, wood stand.
12.6cm (5in) wide (2).
Sold for
£114,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance: purchased in Sydney, Australia in the 1950s/60s
Exhibited: 28th International Congress of Orientalists, Exhibition of Asian Documentary and Art Materials, Canberra, 6-12 January 1971
Compare a white jade phoenix, similarly depicted with archaistic wings, illustrated by R.Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, fig.199.
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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