Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts and Jewellery
Live Auction, 7 October 2019
Chinese and Japanese Ceramics and Works of Art
Lot Estimate
ZAR 25 000 - 30 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 36 416
About this Item
A Chinese dark spinach-green jade seal, Republic period
the seal of square-section, surmounted by a pair of horned, open-mouthed fierce five-clawed dragons carved with scaly bodies, the sides with Tibetan and Chinese archaic script, bearing a four-character seal mark to the side of the base, the base with seal mark, 11cm high, 10,5cm wide, on a fitted stepped carved wood base, raised on low bracket feet, 22cm square
Notes
cf. Dreweatts Donnington Priory Salerooms, 27 June 2012, lot 106 for a comparable example
Provenance
The Andrew Newall Collection.
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