A CELADON JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE, HU 17TH CENTURY

well hollowed, of flattened baluster form, the rounded sides supported on short splayed foot and rising to a flared rim, each side carved in low relief with a large taotie mask below a border enclosing two archaistic addorsed phoenix, with angular bodies and feathery wings, their heads extending from outside the waisted neck to form the handles, all between a raised rope fillet encircling the foot and a band of cicada blades picked out with leiwen collaring the neck, the lustrous celadon stone with brown russet inclusions and natural veins

A private Japanese collection.

There is some light pitting to the surface on one of the phoenix body, a calcified patch outside the footring with a small bit of loss, polished down, as well as a natural calcified 2.3 cm vertical vein on the neck, and a small polished flaw on the rim, but overall the vase is in quite good condition.
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