Lot 101
PAIR OF SPINACH-GREEN JADE PHOENIX
LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Auction: 16 May 2018 at 17:00 BST
£625
Description
each standing on a rockwork base, with short crests of feathers along the head and neck, the wing and tail feathers incised to simulate plumage; together with a PAIR OF SPINACH-GREEN JADE BIRDS, EARLY 20TH CENTURY, 13cm high (4)
Dimensions
23.5cm high
Footnote
Provenance:
Private Scottish collection; purchased from William Clayton Fine Chinese Jade, Porcelain and Works of Art, London, in the 1960s and 1970s.