A RARE WHITE JADE-INSET GILT-SILVER 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' EWER AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY modelled with a circular body of flattened form, supported on a splayed foot and surmounted by a tapering neck and galleried mouth-rim, flanked by a handle modelled in the form of a dragon's head at the top and ending with an upturned tail, opposite a spout cast as a phoenix with its beak forming the aperture and plumage elaborately rendered in scrollwork, each main side of the vessel inset with a convex oval white jade panel, one side worked in low relief with two large peaches borne on gnarled leafy branches and further rendered with two bats, the other similarly rendered with a partially concealed bat and a floral bloom issuing from a stem, the base with an apocryphal four-character Qianlong reign mark, the oval cover similarly inset with a pierced white jade panel adorned with a pair of kui dragons, encircling a gilt finial cast covered with petal motifs l. 25.1 cm, 9 7/8 in.
A RARE WHITE JADE-INSET GILT-SILVER 'DRAGON AND PHOENIX' EWER AND COVER QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY modelled with a circular body of flattened form, supported on a splayed foot and surmounted by a tapering neck and galleried mouth-rim, flanked by a handle modelled in the form of a dragon's head at the top and ending with an upturned tail, opposite a spout cast as a phoenix with its beak forming the aperture and plumage elaborately rendered in scrollwork, each main side of the vessel inset with a convex oval white jade panel, one side worked in low relief with two large peaches borne on gnarled leafy branches and further rendered with two bats, the other similarly rendered with a partially concealed bat and a floral bloom issuing from a stem, the base with an apocryphal four-character Qianlong reign mark, the oval cover similarly inset with a pierced white jade panel adorned with a pair of kui dragons, encircling a gilt finial cast covered with petal motifs l. 25.1 cm, 9 7/8 in.
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