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A spinach green archaistic vessel and cover, tulu Late Qing/Republic period
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
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A spinach green archaistic vessel and cover, tulu
Late Qing/Republic period
Of rectangular section with a pair of scrolling strap handles and four tubular projections at each corner terminating in waisted feet, the upper walls cut with a band of interlaced serpents above shou medallions on the front and back faces and strap-work scrolls on each leg, the conforming cover reticulated with a dragon finial and coiled chilong at each corner, the matrix of richly hued and varied leaf green dotted with tiny black inclusions.
5 1/2in (14cm) height including cover
5 1/4in (13.2cm) width across the handles
Of rectangular section with a pair of scrolling strap handles and four tubular projections at each corner terminating in waisted feet, the upper walls cut with a band of interlaced serpents above shou medallions on the front and back faces and strap-work scrolls on each leg, the conforming cover reticulated with a dragon finial and coiled chilong at each corner, the matrix of richly hued and varied leaf green dotted with tiny black inclusions.
5 1/2in (14cm) height including cover
5 1/4in (13.2cm) width across the handles
Footnotes
This vessel is based on a tulu, an archaic container for pigments: see the late Shang bronze example with four cylindrical corner tubes, from the collection of Dr .Cheng Te-k'un, published in Eskenazi: Twenty five years, 1985, no. 6, pp. 26-27. A zoomorphic jade example, with an animal head and neck extruding from the rectangular four-sectioned body, is dated to the Western Zhou dynasty in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum (1943.50.636). See Max Loehr and Louisa G. Fitzgerald Huber, Ancient Jades from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection in the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, cat. no. 185, p. 142.