A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE 'PHOENIX' HAIRPIN

A CHINESE PALE CELADON JADE 'PHOENIX' HAIRPIN
YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY

Decorated with an openwork phoenix terminal above a tapering cylindrical stem, the stone with occasional russet inclusions, 16.5cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, Sussex.

Cf. Chan Lai Pik, Chinese Jades: The Dr SY Kwan Collection, no.118, for a comparable hairpin of this period with a phoenix terminal. See also, Christie's New York, The Collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Part III - Chinese Works of Art: Qing Ceramics, Glass and Jade Carvings, 19th March 2015, lot 602, for another similar example.

元/明早期 青白玉雕鳳戲牡丹髮簪
來源：英國薩塞克斯私人收藏。