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32 A JADE VASE AND COVER OF ARCHAISTIC FANGHU SHAPE CHINA, QING DYNASTY It rests on a tall and recessed spread foot and has an elongated and flattened egg-shaped body surmounted by a waisted neck flanked by two mythical beast shaped handles with loose rings. It is topped by a dome-shaped lid carved with stylised cicadas. The body is carved in low-re- lief with patterns arranged in superposed registers: the lower one depicts stylized cicadas; the middle one depicts taotié masks; the upper one depicts stylized banana leaves. The inner part is well hollowed. Affixed to a matching parcel reticulated wooden stand. H (stand included): 18 cm Gross weight: 312,8 grams Note: A vase can represent the meaning of ‘peace’ or ‘safety’ because both the character for vase (ping - 瓶 ) and that for peace (pingan - 平安 ) are pronounced ‘ping’. Taotie masks are a design that first appeared during the Shang Dynasty on ritual bronze food vessels. This vase reveals the taste for antiques and for jade carvings shaped after archaic vessels that was predominant during the Qianlong period. Indeed, he had amassed enormous ancient bronzes, which decorated halls and became a scenery in the Qing palaces like his other precious collections and sustained research effort—spanned sixty years during the Qianlong reign—resulted in three catalogues of imperial bronze collection. €2,000 - €4,000