A RARE YELLOW JADE ARCHAISTIC RHYTON QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY the smoothly polished stone of warm greenish-yellow colour with snowflake inclusions and caramel-brown calcified streaks, well carved and hollowed with the bottom-end resembling the upturned trunk of an elephant curling up toward the body , the exterior decorated in low relief with a continuous band enclosing a taotie mask on each side, below key-fret around the rim, the base picked out with swirling clouds cleverly incorporating the natural russet veining of the jade, wood stand 13.1 cm., 5 1/8 in.
A RARE YELLOW JADE ARCHAISTIC RHYTON QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY the smoothly polished stone of warm greenish-yellow colour with snowflake inclusions and caramel-brown calcified streaks, well carved and hollowed with the bottom-end resembling the upturned trunk of an elephant curling up toward the body , the exterior decorated in low relief with a continuous band enclosing a taotie mask on each side, below key-fret around the rim, the base picked out with swirling clouds cleverly incorporating the natural russet veining of the jade, wood stand 13.1 cm., 5 1/8 in.
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