Property from Various Owners
A mottled white jade brush washer with qilin and cloud design
19th century
The boulder of irregular ovoid form deeply hollowed out with smoothly finished interior walls while the exterior surfaces are worked in high relief with three fabulous beasts climbing through dense clouds above a base of swirling waves; the matrix of translucent off-white and pale straw colored veins with pale golden yellow and brown spots intermingled with opaque white areas.
5 1/4in (13.5cm) long
The boulder of irregular ovoid form deeply hollowed out with smoothly finished interior walls while the exterior surfaces are worked in high relief with three fabulous beasts climbing through dense clouds above a base of swirling waves; the matrix of translucent off-white and pale straw colored veins with pale golden yellow and brown spots intermingled with opaque white areas.
5 1/4in (13.5cm) long
Sold for
US$ 6,875
inc. premium
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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