Important Chinese Art including Imperial Jades from the De An Tang Collection

Important Chinese Art including Imperial Jades from the De An Tang Collection

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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 inclusions

15 cm

Christie's London, 16th November 1998, lot 9.


倫敦佳士得1998年11月16日，編號9

The present piece belongs to a group of archaistic rhytons, whereby clambering dragons and scroll bands are common features. Compare, for example, two Ming dynasty rhytons in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, accession nos M.70.76.21 and AC1993.231.3.

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.