AN UNUSUAL CARNELIAN AGATE TWIN-VASE GROUP

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AN UNUSUAL CARNELIAN AGATE TWIN-VASE GROUP
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

Well carved in high relief and openwork, utilising the different natural colours of the stone, modelled as a chilong clambering between two covered vases, one of meiping form and the other of flattened globular shape, all on an integral rockwork-ground, growing sprays of lingzhi fungus to the sides of the vases, the stone of a rich reddish-orange tone with striations and areas of white highlighting the decoration
4 3/4 in. (12 cm.) high, box

拍品专文

The ingenius contrast in working the tonal difference of the natural stone into an overall design was a lapidary skill that was particularly well executed by Qing dynasty master craftsmen. Compare with two examples both from the Palace Museum, Beijing, dated to the mid Qing period, illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, 1991, vol. 6, p.89, no. 137, for a group of peach, finger critus and lingzhi hollowed as a vase; and a peach and lingzhi on rockwork vase, p. 92, no. 142.