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○ 11 A SPINACH-GREEN JADE RUYI 清十九世紀 碧玉雕靈芝如意 ○ 12 A SPINACH-GREEN JADE 清十八 / 十九世紀 碧玉雕壽字
SCEPTER
來源 CENSER AND COVER 紋龍耳蓋爐
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY H. Deakin 收藏，1904年之前 QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY 來源
carved as a gnarled branch with a lingzhi-form head, the branch 美國藝術聯盟，紐約，1904年4月25日，編號 the bowl-shaped sides supported on a splayed pedestal foot Robert B. Woodward (1840-1915) 收藏
with a chilong clambering upwards and smaller undercut twisted 1056 and rising to a short constricted neck and galleried rim, the 1914年贈予布魯克林博物館，布魯克林 (館藏編
stems issuing further lingzhi, the head of the scepter with 1951年贈予布魯克林博物館，布魯克林 (館藏編 shoulder set with a pair of archaistic kuilong scroll handles, the 號14.341a-b)
attendant lingzhi and a small bat, the emerald and apple-green 號51.249.1) body carved in low relief with stylized shou characters divided
stone variegated with darker streaks by ruyi-shaped panels, the domed cover similarly decorated and 出版
surmounted by a compressed globular openwork finial in the John Getz，《The Woodward Collection of Jades
Length 16⅛ in., 41 cm form of a fierce coiled dragon, the translucent deep green stone and Other Hard Stones》，紐約，1913年，圖版92
variegated with paler and black streaks (2)
PROVENANCE
Width 9 in., 23 cm
Collection of H. Deakin, prior to 1904.
American Art Association, New York, 25th April 1904, lot 1056.
Gifted to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, in 1951 (acc. no. PROVENANCE
51.249.1). Collection of Robert B. Woodward (1840-1915).
Gifted to the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, in 1914 (acc. no.
$ 6,000-8,000 14.341a-b).
LITERATURE
John Getz, The Woodward Collection of Jades and Other Hard
Stones, New York, 1913, pl. 92.
$ 40,000-60,000

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