Property from the De An Tang Collection 德安堂藏玉
An archaistic pale green jade rhyton Ming dynasty | 明 青玉仿古玉角盃
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Property from the De An Tang Collection
An archaistic pale green jade rhyton
Ming dynasty
德安堂藏玉
明 青玉仿古玉角盃
powerfully worked, the deep hollow horn-shaped vessel depicted issuing from a ridged sweeping bifurcated dragon tail, the exterior carved in low relief with a wide band of dense curls, reserved on a ground of subtly incised cloud scrolls, with a small chilong clambering on💧 one side, the stone of greenish white tone with russet inclusio🐎ns
15 cm
Christie's London, 16th November 1998, lot 9.
倫敦佳士得1998年11月16日，編號9
A Romance with Jade: From the De An Tang Collection,ꦜ Yongshougong, Palace Museum, Beijinಌg, 2004, cat. no. 120.
《玉緣：德安堂藏玉》，永壽宮，故宮博物院，北京，2004年，編號120
For a Han dynasty prototype, see a jade rhyton decorated with a dragon terminated in a bifurcated tail, from the Qing court collection and now in the National Palace Museum, Taipei (accession no. Gu-yu-002790), illustrated in The Refined Tase of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of the Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch'ing Court, Taipei, 1997, p. 126 bottom left.