A RARE CELADON JADE MEDICINE MORTAR AND ZITAN COVER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD of elongated crescent form, the raised ends supported on a pair of flaring hoof-shaped feet each pierced with two ruyi-head apertures, rising to an oval-sectioned gallery rim, the stone of an even celadon tone mottled with milky-white inclusions and russet veins, surmounted by a domed zitan cover superbly carved in low relief with stylised archaistic scrolls around a central oval cabochon, the underside of the cover with a raised oval boss incised with the character bing 31 cm, 12 1/4 in.
A RARE CELADON JADE MEDICINE MORTAR AND ZITAN COVER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD of elongated crescent form, the raised ends supported on a pair of flaring hoof-shaped feet each pierced with two ruyi-head apertures, rising to an oval-sectioned gallery rim, the stone of an even celadon tone mottled with milky-white inclusions and russet veins, surmounted by a domed zitan cover superbly carved in low relief with stylised archaistic scrolls around a central oval cabochon, the underside of the cover with a raised oval boss incised with the character bing 31 cm, 12 1/4 in.
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