A carved celadon jade archaistic cup and cover (Ming dynasty, around 1600)
£ 16,500.00
Period: Ming dynasty, around 1600 Dimensions: 13.8cm height, 7.7cm diameter
Provenance: – Sotheby’s Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, 16 May 2007 (lot 260)
– Formerly in the Collection of G. Ribbins Peletier, Esq.
Provenance:
– Formerly in the Collection of G. Ribbins Peletier, Esq.
– Sotheby’s Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, London, 16 May 2007, lot 260
Published:
Stanley Charles Nott, ‘Chinese jade throughout the ages’,Japan, 1962, Plate XXV
The body on three stylised feet decorated with animal masks. The feet carved in relief around the sides with a confronting archaistic dragon and phoenix on a studded ground, separated by a cylindrical flanged loop handle decorated with scroll motifs, all between key-fret bands at the rim and base, the cover with a central yinyang knop surrounded by three recumbent rams separated by three taotie mask motifs, the mottled stone of light celadon tone with brown and russet inclusions.
Compare a similar cup without a cover, sold at Sotheby’s New York, March, 20th 2007, lot 623. Another similar cup can be found in René-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé, Chinese Jades in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1972, plate L, p. 115, where it is mentioned that a comparable cup excavated from a Ming dynasty tomb dated 1676 and located outside of Beijing, is illustrated in Wenwu, Beijing, 1963, fig. 18, no. 1, p. 42.
A carved celadon jade archaistic cup and cover (Ming dynasty, around 1600)
£ 16,500.00
Period: Ming dynasty, around 1600
Dimensions: 13.8cm height, 7.7cm diameter
Provenance:
– Sotheby’s Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, 16 May 2007 (lot 260)
– Formerly in the Collection of G. Ribbins Peletier, Esq.
Description
明 约 1600 青玉仿古单耳杯
Dimensions: 13.8cm high, 7.7cm diameter
Provenance:
– Formerly in the Collection of G. Ribbins Peletier, Esq.
– Sotheby’s Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, London, 16 May 2007, lot 260
Published:
Stanley Charles Nott, ‘Chinese jade throughout the ages’,Japan, 1962, Plate XXV
The body on three stylised feet decorated with animal masks. The feet carved in relief around the sides with a confronting archaistic dragon and phoenix on a studded ground, separated by a cylindrical flanged loop handle decorated with scroll motifs, all between key-fret bands at the rim and base, the cover with a central yinyang knop surrounded by three recumbent rams separated by three taotie mask motifs, the mottled stone of light celadon tone with brown and russet inclusions.
Compare a similar cup without a cover, sold at Sotheby’s New York, March, 20th 2007, lot 623. Another similar cup can be found in René-Yvon Lefebvre d’Argencé, Chinese Jades in the Avery Brundage Collection, San Francisco, 1972, plate L, p. 115, where it is mentioned that a comparable cup excavated from a Ming dynasty tomb dated 1676 and located outside of Beijing, is illustrated in Wenwu, Beijing, 1963, fig. 18, no. 1, p. 42.
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