Chinese jade vase with a taotie face between two cicada

An image of Vase. Pale green jade flattened baluster jade vase, the body decorated with an archaistic taotie face between two cicada. The neck set with phoenix handles and a band of roundels and beads decorated below. nephrite, height, with lid, 24.7 cm, width 11 cm, 1750-1800. Chinese.

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Vase. Pale green jade flattened baluster jade vase, the body decorated with an archaistic taotie face between two cicada. The neck set with phoenix handles and a band of roundels and beads decorated below. nephrite, height, with lid, 24.7 cm, width 11 cm, 1750-1800. Chinese.

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Accession Number: O.10 & A-1934
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/25.0
Focal length: 100
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 689 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 393.27kB
Exposure time: 1/100
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 25/1
Captured: 2007:12:28 23:34:18

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18th Century carved Chinese cicada Fitz_AA green handled insects jade lidded nephrite pale green phoenix taotie mask vase

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