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Lot 455

A FINE AND RARE JADE GUI IN ARCHAIC STYLE

Estimated Value:

3.000 € - 5.000 €

Result:

incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, Ming dynasty
B. 16,5 cm H. 7,5 cm
Light gray-blue-beige, partly purple splashed jade, excellently worked after an archaic bronze of the Shang dynasty.
Important Austrian private collection, acquired according to records from the E & J Frankel Collection, New York in the 1980s
Published: Zeileis 'Selected Chinese Jade from Seven Millennia', 1994, no. 294, pp. 366 - 367.
Minimally bumped, fine cracks