CHINE, FIN DE LA DYNASTIE MING, XVIIEME SIECLE

Details

COUPE EN JADE CELADON ET ROUILLE, GUI
CHINE, FIN DE LA DYNASTIE MING, XVIIEME SIECLE
The cup is well carved after an archaic bronze form with a pair of elaborate handles formed by horned dragon heads. The neck is incised with stylized kui dragons, and the rounded sides are is carved in relief with archaistic bosses centred on a notched flange below a mythical animal mask. The stone is of an even celadon tone with some cloudy areas and minor russet inclusions.

7½ in. (19 cm.) wide

Provenance

Collection of Baron Jean-Baptiste Louis Gros (1793-1870), and thence by descent to the present owner.

Further details

A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ARCHAISTIC CUP, GUI
CHINA, LATE MING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY

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Lot Essay

This jade gui embodies the pursuit of archaism on late Ming jade vessels. An almost identical gui together with another similar archaistic example are in the National Museum of China, illustrated in Studies of the Collections of the National Museum of China, Shanghai, 2006, pp. 257-258, nos. 205 and 206.

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