A spinach-green jade figural vase group and cover
Qianlong/ Jiaqing
The flattened baluster vase surmounted by a domed cover with a mythical beast finial, carved in low relief with pendent petals below a key-fret border, the shoulders well carved carved in high relief with a dragon and a chilong pursuing the flaming pearl, all flanked by an official mounted on a horse and holding a ruyi sceptre and a man supporting a boy standing on his shoulders and holding a halberd and a musical chime against the vase, the stone of mottled spinach-green tone, wood stand.
18.2cm (7⅛in) high (3).
The flattened baluster vase surmounted by a domed cover with a mythical beast finial, carved in low relief with pendent petals below a key-fret border, the shoulders well carved carved in high relief with a dragon and a chilong pursuing the flaming pearl, all flanked by an official mounted on a horse and holding a ruyi sceptre and a man supporting a boy standing on his shoulders and holding a halberd and a musical chime against the vase, the stone of mottled spinach-green tone, wood stand.
18.2cm (7⅛in) high (3).
Sold for
£5,040
inc. premium
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- Provenance: an English private collection
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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