Chinese white jade vase & cover: Highlights from the Dec 11th 2013 Fine Asian Works of Art auction

Lee Young, Head of Lyon & Turnbull's Asian Art department and star of the BBC's Antiques Roadshow, provides insights into some of his favourite lots from the forthcoming Fine Asian Works of Art auction, to be held in Edinburgh on 11th December 2013.

Lot 155
AN ARCHAIC STYLE WHITE JADE VASE AND COVER
the ovoid body with a domed cover, with a pair of loose-ring Buddhistic lion-head handles to the shoulder, and a smaller set to both the handle and lower body, the sides carved in low relief with an archaistic phoenix masks on a lobed and flared foot
30cm high
Estimate £8,000-12,000

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