TWO JADE 'CHILONG' CARVINGS


Qing dynasty or earlierThe first a flattened pebble of irregular oval silhouette, deeply undercut as a young dragon grasping a twisting lingzhi branch with delicately incised details, the pale grayish white stone enlivened with russet dark gray patches along the edges; the second an oval pendant reticulated as a dragon resting its head on its upraised tail, the outer edges of the loop subtly contoured with the beast's backbone that coincides partly with pale golden veins and natural fissure lines in the pale greenish-white stone.2 1/4 and 2 1/2in (5.8 and 6.5cm) long (2).
|清或更早 玉雕螭龍紋把件兩件Provenance: Dr. Dean EdellExhibited:The oval pendant: "Treasures of the Chinese Nobility", Cornell Fine Arts Museum, May-September, 1997Published:Christopher Randall, The Brush & the Stone: Chinese Jades, Snuff Bottles and Works of Art from the Collection of Dr. Dean Edell, Hong Kong, 1998: the oval pendant as Ming dynasty, No. 29, pp. 45-46