AN APPLE-GREEN JADEITE FIGURE OF A STANDING MEIREN, LATE QING DYNASTY

AN APPLE-GREEN JADEITE FIGURE OF A STANDING MEIREN

LATE QING DYNASTY

清末 翠玉雕美人立像

the slender body draped in long robes fluttering at the sleeves and hem and framed by upswept sashes, each arm crossing in front of the body with the proper left hand tucked behind the opposite sleeve and the proper right hand lifted and holding a small ewer, the oval face bowed slightly and framed by long hair pulled into a high chignon, a phoenix perched on rockwork to either side of the figure, the stone a bright apple-green with passages of icy white

Height 13⅞ in., 35.2 cm