rockwork, it turns its head back grasping long leafy branches of peony blooms, with finely incised details to the phoenix's feathers, with greyish-lilac and rich amber-coloured sections in the stone, 11cm. Cf. Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum, Jade, vol.9, pp.152-153, no.141 for a comparable celadon jade carving of a phoenix holding a fruiting branch in its mouth; see also Roger Keverne, Summer Exhibition 2008, p.114, no.95 for another similar carving in jade.
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