A RARE AND LARGE BLACKISH-GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC GONG-FORM VESSEL AND COVER

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Lot 760 | A RARE AND LARGE BLACKISH-GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC GONG-FORM VESSEL AND COVER
A RARE AND LARGE BLACKISH-GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC GONG-FORM VESSEL AND COVER

The vessel and cover are carved with zoomorphic features and archaistic motifs, including a bird-like animal protruding from the front of the body and the sides with scrolling serpentine beasts in high relief against a leiwen ground. The handle is surmounted by a humanoid head crowned with a pair of blade-like projections, and is supported on two firmly planted paw feet. The cover is carved at the front with a beast with large curved horns and at the back with a bovine mask with large pointed horns, the sides with two felines against a leiwen ground. The stone is of a deep blackish-green tone with white speckling throughout. The base is inscribed with a Qianlong fanggu mark.

14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm.), softwood stand





Provenance

Sotheby’s New York, 22 March 2000, lot 14.



Literature

H. H. F. Jayne, The Chinese Collections in the Norton Gallery and School of Art, Palm Beach, Florida, 1972, no. 248.



Exhibited

Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery of Art.

St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Art.

Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, 2000-2022.

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