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Auction House:
Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
18-Jul-2018
Lot No.
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Description:
A pair of celadon jade reticulated cylindrical perfumers, Qing dynasty, 19th century, each carved and pierced with slightly differing continuous scenes of four cranes in flight and perched on jagged rocks beside gnarled pine trees, and with further trees growing from fissures in the high rocky cliffs, one crane carrying a lingzhi stem in its beak, all between bands of incised key-fret at the base and around the rim, the stones of pale greenish tint with some opaque white mottling around the bases, wood stands and covers. -6. each 20 cm high, 25.5 cm high overall. Provenance: Metropolitan Fine Arts & Antiques Inc., New York
Estimate:
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Price:
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Category:
Oriental: Jade