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PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION
法國私人珍藏
(LOTS 188-189)

188
BRULE-PARFUM COUVERT ARCHAISANT EN JADE
BLANC, TULU
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING,
EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
Reposant sur quatre pieds en forme de colonne, la panse
rectangulaire aux angles arrondis est à décor continu de dragons
archaïsants aux corps stylisés et de caractères Shou ('longévité')
dans la section inférieure. Il est flanqué d'une paire de phénix
tenant des anneaux mobiles délicatement sculptés formant les
anses. Le couvercle est surmonté d'un puissant dragon au corps
noueux entouré par quatre chilongs formant des médaillons.
Hauteur: 12,5 cm. (5 in.)
€40,000-60,000 US$47,000-70,000
£37,000-54,000
PROVENANCE:
In a branch of La Rochefoucauld family since the 19th century.
A WHITE JADE ARCHAISTIC QUADRIPOD CENSER AND
COVER, TULU
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
清乾隆 白玉龍紋四管爐
來源:
自十九世紀被法國貴族拉羅什富科家族成員收藏
現法國私人珍藏

This very distinctively shaped vessel was carved in imitation of
an archaic bronze form, which was used to hold artist’s materials.
Coloured pigments were kept in the tubular compartments at
each corner and subdivided by wooden compartments. The
central compartment held a saucer and water for mixing the
colours. For a discussion of the bronze prototypes, see Cheng Te
Kun, ‘The T’u-Lu Colour-Container of the Shang-Chou Period’,
B.M.F.E.A., no. 37, 1965, p. 239-249, pl. 1-6, where examples in
jade, marble and pottery are also illustrated. Several examples
of this type of jade vessel are published. Compare two of similar
form dated to the late Qing dynasty in the Avery Brundage
Collection, illustrated by d’Argencé, Chinese Jades in the Avery
Brundage Collection, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1977,
p. 124, pl. LV. See another example in the Qing Court Collection,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum - III - Jadeware, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 190, no. 156.

Also see a similar tulu from the Leonard Gow Collection, which
was sold at Christie’s London, 15 May 2012, lot 198 ; another one
sold in Christie’s Paris, 21-22 June 2016, lot 167.