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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION 清十九世紀 白玉雕福壽連綿紋如意
A CARVED WHITE JADE ‘BATS AND FRUIT’
RUYI SCEPTER 來源
QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 香港佳士得2000年5月1日，編號670
私人收藏
Japanese wood box (3)
Length 13⅝ in., 34.5 cm 倫敦佳士得2012年5月15日，編號59
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, 1st May 2000, lot 670.
Private Collection.
Christie’s London, 15th May 2012, lot 59.
$ 40,000-60,000

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PROPERTY OF A NORTH AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR
A SET OF TWO RARE IMPERIAL INSCRIBED Further examples of jade books with commemorative
GREEN JADE BOOK LEAVES inscriptions include two dated to 1648, documenting the
DATED GUANGXU 1ST YEAR, CORRESPONDING posthumous title given by the Shunzhi Emperor to his
grandmother. One is in the Qing Court Collection, still
TO 1875 in Beijing, and published in The Complete Collection of
(2) Treasures of the Palace Museum. Jadeware (III), Hong Kong,
Length 11⅜ in., 28.8 cm 1995, pl. 3. The other, which was once part of the Hartman
Collection, sold at Christie’s London, 12th December
PROVENANCE 1988, lot 241, and later in these rooms, 15th September
Collection of Henry Joseph (1861-1912) and Mary Virginia 2010, lot 210. See also a set of five jade leaves, dated
Ives (1861-1929) Crocker, and thence by descent. 1718, commemorating the conferring of a posthumous
title on Empress Xiaohui Zhang, sold in these rooms,
Skillfully fashioned into uniform tablets and meticulously 22nd September 2021, lot 208.
inscribed, these jade panels are dated to the twenty-
second day of the sixth month of the first year of Guangxu $ 30,000-50,000
Emperor’s reign and commemorate the conferring of the
two characters zhuang (revered) and jian (prudent) to the 光緒元年（1875年） 咸豐皇帝青玉謚冊
posthumous title of the Xianfeng Emperor.
一組二頁
According to Qing imperial records, it is customary for all
emperors newly ascended to the throne to bestow a few 來源
characters to the posthumous titles of their predecessors
as a demonstration of reverence and respect. The elaborate Henry Joseph (1861-1912) 及 Mary Virginia Ives
ritual rite that celebrates this conference includes the (1861-1929) Crocker 伉儷收藏，此後家族傳承
carving of new jade leaves, such as the present lot, that
serves as an imperial record to the event.
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