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A pair of pale celadon jade cylindrical cricket cages, Qing…
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Auction Location:
Sydney
Date:
21-Jun-2017
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Description:
A pair of pale celadon jade cylindrical cricket cages, Qing dynasty, 19th century, the tall straight sides of each carved and pierced with slightly differing continuous scenes of four cranes in flight and perched on jagged rocks beside gnarled pine trees, and with further trees growing from fissures in the high rocky cliffs, one crane carrying a lingzhi stem in its beak, all between bands of incised key-fret at the base and around the rim, the stones of pale greenish tint with some opaque white mottling around the bases, wood stands and covers, each cricket cage 20 cm high. Provenance: Metropolitan Fine Arts & Antiques Inc., New York
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Unclassified