A CELADON-WHITE JADE 'PHOENIX' VASE AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY of flattened baluster form rising from a splayed foot to broad shoulders and a narrow oval neck, carved in high relief on each side with a pair of archaistic phoenix flanking a shou medallion, their long curling tail feathers rising up to a mythical beast head projecting a central loop, the shoulders set with two handles carved in openwork in the form of qilins, each with a ruyi-shaped tail and incurved horns, resting their snout on the mouthrim and their forepaws on a raised band girding the waisted neck, the mouthrim and footring accented with key-fret, the stepped cover surmounted by a gadrooned finial, the smoothly polished stone of even pale celadon colour streaked with a russet vein carefully incorporated in the design on one side 22.8 cm., 9 in.
A CELADON-WHITE JADE 'PHOENIX' VASE AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY of flattened baluster form rising from a splayed foot to broad shoulders and a narrow oval neck, carved in high relief on each side with a pair of archaistic phoenix flanking a shou medallion, their long curling tail feathers rising up to a mythical beast head projecting a central loop, the shoulders set with two handles carved in openwork in the form of qilins, each with a ruyi-shaped tail and incurved horns, resting their snout on the mouthrim and their forepaws on a raised band girding the waisted neck, the mouthrim and footring accented with key-fret, the stepped cover surmounted by a gadrooned finial, the smoothly polished stone of even pale celadon colour streaked with a russet vein carefully incorporated in the design on one side 22.8 cm., 9 in.
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