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Lot 179*
An archaistic pale green jade vase and cover, feng lei 19th century
8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£30,000 - £40,000
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An archaistic pale green jade vase and cover, feng lei
19th century
Boldly and crisply carved as a flattened baluster vase, each of the two wider sides with a central animal mask in the upper decorative band above an archaic taotie mask in the lower band divided by flanges, each of the narrow sides with archaic scrolls beneath a simple rectangular-sectioned handle, the neck and foot also with taotie masks and the corners with rows of flanges, the cover similarly carved with taotie masks and flanges beneath a high stepped finial, box.
24.cm (9½in) high (3).
Boldly and crisply carved as a flattened baluster vase, each of the two wider sides with a central animal mask in the upper decorative band above an archaic taotie mask in the lower band divided by flanges, each of the narrow sides with archaic scrolls beneath a simple rectangular-sectioned handle, the neck and foot also with taotie masks and the corners with rows of flanges, the cover similarly carved with taotie masks and flanges beneath a high stepped finial, box.
24.cm (9½in) high (3).
Footnotes
十九世紀 青玉雕仿古獸面紋出戟方罍
Compare a related green jade vase also with flanges and taotie mask carving, but with ring-handles, dated to the QIng Dynasty, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 10 Qing Dynasty, Beijing and Hefei, 2011, no.12.














