Bonhams 1793 : A Mughal-style jadeite vase and cover

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24 Nov 2012 14:00 CST Hong Kong
Timeless and Translucent: The Harold E. Stack Collection of Chinese Jades
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A Mughal-style jadeite vase and cover

The delicate body of elegant hu form, supported on a high splayed foot, with high shoulders rising to a lipped rim, finely worked on each side with a seated deity with fiery mandala holding a ritual staff and bouquet of flowers, framed within leafy scrolls with further chysanthemums at the neck, flanked at the shoulders by a pair of loose rings issuing from elaborate handles in the form of chrysanthemums and leafy sprays, the cover similarly depicted and interlinked with a finely worked chain, the semi-translucent stone with apple green striations.
20.7cm high.

Sold for HK$ 250,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

Provenance 來源:
S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco

For a closely related Mughal-style jade vase and cover, see Roger Keverne (ed.), Jade, London, 1991, p.23, fig.9.

翡翠痕都斯坦式玉瓶

玉青色，間有翠綠斑紋。瓶薄胎，直徑，豐肩，口微敞，扁方體，圈足外撇，覆斗式蓋，菊花活環鈕，壺頸兩側各有一菊花式耳，其下套活環，鈕與耳之間以套環相連。腹部兩面各雕觀音像，器身兩側及頸部則雕卷草花葉紋。

參看另一件類似的清晚期痕都斯坦式翡翠玉瓶，Roger Kevern編，《Jade》，倫敦，1991年，頁23，圖版9，

Category: Asian Art

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