LOT 164 【*】A VERY RARE PALE GREEN JADE 'MYTHICAL BEAST' WATER DROPPE...
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A VERY RARE PALE GREEN JADE 'MYTHICAL BEAST' WATER DROPPER AND COVER Ming Dynasty (2)A VERY RARE PALE GREEN JADE 'MYTHICAL BEAST' WATER DROPPER AND COVERMing Dynasty Finely carved as a crouching mythical beast with ears and horns flicking back as though preparing to pounce on its prey, rendered with an elongated torso flanked by a flame-like tendrils, terminating in a bifurcated tail with curling ends, flanked by three sinuous chilong clambering to his sides and over the cover on his back, the interior well hollowed, holding a round bowl in his mouth, the stone of even pale green tone with cloudy inclusions. 15cm (6in) wide. (2).明 青玉雕瑞獸硯滴帶蓋Provenance: a European private collection, and thence by descent來源:歐洲私人收藏,並由後人保存迄今The form of the present vessel is based on archaic bronzes of the Han or Six Dynasties period. See a bronze water dropper shaped as a mythical beast and holding a bowl in his mouth, 4th - 6th century AD, in the collection of the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in The Chinese Scholar's Studio. Artistic Life in the Late Ming Period, New York, 1987, no.86.Compare with a related grey jade bixie form water dropper, Ming dynasty or earlier, illustrated by J.Rawson and J.Ayers, Chinese Jade Through the Ages, London, 1975, no.338. See also two related pale green jade mythical beast waterpots, Ming dynasty, illustrated in The Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade, vol.6, Beijing, 2011, nos.74-75. A related pale green jade 'mythical beast' waterpot, Ming dynasty, was sold at Bonhams, 11 May 2021, lot 128.public_sentiment_keywords: Jade +han ** Bronze ** bronze ** Jade +jinis_parse: 20230413image: yuzhan_bonhams_item/51930779.jpgsold_price_type: £
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