A LARGE CHINESE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE 'DRAGON' FINIAL

A LARGE CHINESE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE 'DRAGON' FINIAL
17TH CENTURY

7.5cm. (2)

Purchased from CG Knapton Ltd, 20th March 2017.

Carved in relief with a single dragon rising from cloud scrolls, the interior hollowed as a cylinder, raised on a silk stand, with a paper label for 'Ashkenazie & Co Collection'.

Provenance: from an English private collection, Yorkshire, purchased from CG Knapton Ltd, 20th March 2017.

Cf. Marchant, Chinese Jades from Han to Qing, 2005, p.31, no.22 for a related cloud and dragon finial.