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Lot 113

A rare pale green jade duck carrying a vase
Qianlong/Jiaqing

13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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A rare pale green jade duck carrying a vase

Qianlong/Jiaqing
The impressive vessel carved as a large duck with its head held high, a floral collar around its neck, the wings folded over the body, the plumage carved as an archaistic mythical bird framed by C-scrolls, with the feathers and tail feathers well delineated, with the webbed feet tucked under the body, surmounted by a well-hollowed tall baluster square-section vase with a ruyi-head border around the shoulders and upright plantain leaves on the neck, the stone of even pale green tone with a minor russet inclusion at the rim, wood stand.
18.4cm (7¼in) high (2).

Footnotes

Compare a related jade dragon, phoenix and cong vase group, Qianlong seal mark and period, from the Qing Court Collection, demonstrating similarities in the archaistic carving of the wings and the concept, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, pl.178.

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