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RARE COUPE EN JADE CELADON PALE ET INCRUSTATIONS The Emperor Qianlong greatly admired Chinese jade carvings, but the
D'OR ET PIERRES PRECIEUSES DE STYLE MOGHOL contemporary jades for which he reserved his greatest praise were not
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795) Chinese, but those he termed ‘Hindustan’ (Hendusitan or Wendusitan) jades.
De forme ovale et polylobée imitant celle d'une corolle, l'intérieur est Such was his fascination with these foreign jades that in AD 1768 he wrote a
délicatement incrusté de fils d'or formant des branchages stylisés entourant scholarly text, entitled Tianzhu wuyindu kao’e, on the geography of Hindustan
une fleur au centre. Les anses reproduisent des feuilles d'acanthe incrustées and the derivation of its name. The area he identified was in what is now
de rubis et émeraudes. northern India centering on the city of Agra. In the seventeenth century this
Largeur : 14,5 cm. (5æ in.)
area was part of the Mughal Empire and thus the jades from this region are
€12,000-18,000 US$14,000-21,000 today often referred to as ‘Mughal’ jades. These ‘Mughal’ jades were so highly
£11,000-16,000 regarded by the Qianlong Emperor that lapidaries working for the Chinese
court were commissioned to make jade items in Mughal style.
A RARE GOLD AND GEMSTONE-INLAID PALE CELADON JADE MUGHAL-
STYLE DISH See a similarly decorated gold and ruby-inlaid white jade bowl, inscribed
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) with an imperial poem by the Emperor Qianlong, dated 1786, is in the Palace
清乾隆 痕都斯坦風格青白玉嵌金絲及紅綠寶石盤 Museum collection in Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of
Treasures of the Palace Museum - Treasures of Imperial Court, Hong Kong
來源: 2004, p. 26, no. 21.The decoration on the current dish shares many features
重要藏家私人珍藏
with other Hindustan jades. The handles formed from flower buds and
acanthus leaves may be seen on several items of different shapes in the
collection of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan Catalogue of a Special
Exhibition of Hindustan Jade in the National Palace Museum, 1983, pls. 6, 7,
8, 47, 58 and 59 and also on a jar in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated
in Jadeware III, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum,
Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 285, no. 7.