Important Chinese Works of Art

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Lot 342
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A CELADON JADE ARCHAISTIC TWO-HANDLED CUP QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • jade
the rounded body rising from a short flared foot, the sides carved in low relief with four rows of bosses, flanked by a pair of dragon handles, the stone of an even celadon color with chalky white and russet brown inclusions 

Provenance

Acquired in the 1970s and thence by descent.

Catalogue Note

See a dragon-handled cup of almost identical form and slightly smaller size illustrated in James C.Y. Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, New York, 1980, p. 168, no. 141.