The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

The Family Collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 227. A rare spinach jade archaistic vessel and cover, fang ding, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period | 清乾隆 碧玉仿古饕餮紋鼎式爐.

A rare spinach jade archaistic vessel and cover, fang ding, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period | 清乾隆 碧玉仿古饕餮紋鼎式爐

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March 24, 08:41 PM GMT

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7,000 - 9,000 GBP

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A rare spinach jade archaistic vessel and cover, fang ding

Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period

清乾隆 碧玉仿古饕餮紋鼎式爐


of rectangular section raised on four cylindrical legs and flanked by upright handles supporting loose rings, carved on each face with a band of stylised taotie masks in shallow relief centered on toothed flanges, the cover similarly carved on each side with confronted dragons centered on toothed flanges, the cover surmounted by a dragon knop, the stone an even colour

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18.2 cm high

Sir Ernest Cassel (1852-1921).
Dennis Holman, Lady Louis, Life of the Countess of Burma, London, 1952, photographed in the background of the library at 2 Wilton Crescent, the London home of the Earl and Countess of Burma, colour plate iii, between pp. 8-9.