AN ARCHAISTIC CELADON JADE POURING VESSEL AND COVER, GONG

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AN ARCHAISTIC CELADON JADE POURING VESSEL AND COVER, GONG
19TH CENTURY

Well carved around the body with a broad band enclosing stylized taotie masks reserved on a key-fret-ground above confronted dragons around the foot and below triangular cicada panels on the everted neck, a chilong crawls through the scrolling handle and peers over the domed cover with two raised nobs and a dragon finial, the translucent stone of pale celadon tone with lighter and darker inclusions--6 1/8in. (15.5cm.) high