A white jade cup with Chilong handles, Ming dynasty, 16th century. Photo:Sotheby's

of circular section, the rounded sides supported on a short straight foot, flanked by a pair of openwork handles in the form of a chilong, their jaws and paws resting on the rim and their tails extending along the exterior of the cup, the rim incised with a key-fret border, the lustrous stone of yellowish-celadon colour mottled with icy inclusions and grey specks, wood stand; 13.5 cm., 5 1/4 in. Estimate 150,000 — 200,000 HKD 

Provenance: Christie's Hong Kong, 29th September 1992, lot 755 (part of a set of three).

Note: For another Ming dynasty jade libation cup in the Palace Museum, Beijing. worked with 'double chilong' handles, see Zhongguo meishu fenlei quanji. Zhongguo yuqi quanji. 6. Qing, Hebei, 1991, p. 160, pl. 233.

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