A Pair of Chinese Spinach Jade Covered Vases

19TH CENTURY

清晚期碧玉雙鏈瓶一對
each worked in low relief to show pine-strewn landscapes reserved in cartouche borders, the body carved to a compressed form, flanked with reticulated handles and a conforming cover surmounted by a fu-lion form finial. The handles supporting long interlocking reticulated chains descending from ruyi-hangers suspending from the top of well-carved bamboo stand fitted with a further pair of miniature stands supporting the base of each vase.

Height 17 1/4 in., 43.8 cm.

Property from The Strong National Museum of Play, sold to benefit the Collections Fund

Each vase in overall good stable condition, with some natural fissuring and minor flee-biting about the extremities, one pendant with a minor loss. The stand having old restorations to the top two corners, and the smaller stands with minor losses and adhesive.

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Annie Wu

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.

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A Pair of Chinese Spinach Jade Covered Vases

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