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A PAIR OF ARCHAISTIC SPINACH-GREEN 清乾隆 碧玉龍鳳紋爵一對 「乾隆年製」篆書刻款
JADE VESSELS, JUE
來源:
QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE John Sparks Ltd，倫敦，1959年6月16日（傳）
PERIOD (1736-1795)
台灣私人舊藏
Each vessel is carved in the form of an archaic bronze vessel, jue, with
two friezes enclosing confronted archaistic dragon and phoenix, the
reverse with a taotie mask, all reserved on a leiwen ground divided 本對碧玉爵屬乾隆一朝典型的仿古器物。比較北京故宮博物院藏一對造
by notched flanges, rising from three blade-form supports further 型近似的乾隆碧玉爵，底刻「乾隆年製」四字款，以及英國劍橋大學菲茨威
carved with taotie motifs. The rim is surmounted by two recumbent 廉博物館藏一對乾隆青白玉爵，底刻「大清乾隆仿古」六字款，典藏編號：
mythical beasts and a pair of posts carved with whorl motifs. The O.83A-1946。
flat-back vessels when addorsed form the shape of a complete double-
spouted jue vessel.
5 º in. (13.5 cm.) high, box (2)
HK$350,000-480,000 US$45,000-61,000

P R O V E NAN C E :
John Sparks Ltd, London, acquired on 16 June 1959, by repute
A Taiwanese private collection

Compare with a pair of similar spinach-green jade jue incised with four-
character Qianlong marks in the Palace Museum, Beijing; and a pair of
white jade jueincised with six-character Qianlong fanggumarks in the
Fitzwilliam Museum, museum number: O.83A-1946.

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