Lot 8040
AN AGATE EWER AND COVER QING DYNASTY
The bulbous ewer finely worked in fluted forms on the exterior, with an upright spout and a looped handle issuing from a goats head with a pair of downward curving horns with a suspending ring, the domed cover terminating below a flower-form finial.
L: 17.5 cm
Estimate
TWD 1,172,000-1,875,000
HKD 300,000-480,000
USD 38,700-61,900
Sold Price
EXHIBITED: The jade carving art in the Ch'ing dynasty, National Museum of history, Taipei, 1996, p.33. Compare with an agate ewer and cover from the Collection of the Asian art museum of San Francisco, illustrated in Later Chinese Jades – Ming dynasty to early twentieth century, San Francisco, pl.117, p.131.
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