Page 108 - Sotheby's Important Chinese Art, Sept. 21-22, 2-21, NYC

53 △ 55
A GRAY AND BROWN JADE MYTHICAL BEAST
SONG - MING DYNASTY
the recumbent beast with the head held high, finely carved
with curled brows, round ears and a small horn, the knobby
backbone and ribs well-defined, the legs tucked under with
forepaws pressed together, the bifurcated tail curled onto its
back, the grayish-white stone well polished with streaks of
dark brown
Width 2¼ in., 5.7 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
Compare a related jade mythical beast with shorter neck
illustrated in Roger Keverne ed., Jade, London, 1995, fig. 29.
A figure of a dog with a similarly modeled body, attributed
to the Ming dynasty, is in the collection of the Palace
Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware II, Hong Kong,
1995, pl. 209. Another related figure of a dog with its head
turned to the right sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 20th March
1990, lot 883. See also a mythical beast with the head turned
back sold at Christie’s New York, 2nd June 1989, lot 282; and
one from the Junkunc Collection that sold in these rooms,
22nd September 2020, lot 241.
53
$ 15,000-20,000
宋至明 玉瑞獸
來源：
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世 (1978年逝) 收藏
54
A BEIGE JADE ‘LOTUS LEAF’ VASE
17TH / 18TH CENTURY
naturalistically carved in the form of a furled upright lotus
leaf with fluttering edges, encircled at the middle with
a ribbon tied in a bow, two chilong scaling its sides, all
supported below by a tangle of curling stems forming the
integral openwork base, burgeoning lotus blossoms and
smaller leaves issuing from the stems, the beige stone
gradating to a russet tone near the base, wood stand (2)
Height 9⅞ in., 25.2 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
$ 10,000-15,000
十七 / 十八世紀 玉雕荷葉形花插
54 來源：
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世 (1978年逝) 收藏
104 SOTHEBY’S COMPLETE CATALOGUING AVAILABLE AT SOTHEBYS.COM/N10748
A CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ARCHAISTIC
HANGING VASE AND COVER
17TH CENTURY OR EARLIER
of archaistic you form, the flattened pear-shaped body
raised on a slightly splayed foot, the neck flanked by a pair
of stylized ruyi handles interlinked with a long arched U-form
swing handle, carved around the body with a broad band of
vertical ribs between bands of scrolls, the domed cover with
a band of pendent lappets surmounted by a lotus bud-form
finial, the stone of a pale greenish-celadon tone with areas of
russet and natural inclusions (2)
Height 8⅜ in., 21.2 cm
PROVENANCE
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
Continuing the Song tradition of translating the aesthetic of
large archaic ritual bronzes into relatively small jade vessels,
this you-form vase is carved with two familiar archaic
designs: a simplified leiwen-inspired scroll and a broad
band of vertical ribs. For an archaic bronze you that is also
designed with a wide band of ribbing between bands of birds,
see an example attributed to the early Western Zhou period,
from the Avery Brundage Collection, now in the Asian Art
Museum of San Francisco (obj. no. B60B769.a-.b), published
in Jessica Rawson, Western Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the
Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. IIB, Washington D.C.,
1990, fig. 72.1.
It is rare to find jade vases fashioned with the vertical
ribs. For vessels of related form but carved with various
archaistic motifs, see two in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
one with a taotie design, included in The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Jadeware (III), Hong
Kong, 1995, pl. 152, and the other with stiff leaves below
a bird band, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 6,
Shijiazhuang, pl. 247.
Vertical ribs are also found on jade censers from the Ming
dynasty. See a gui-form example attributed to the Ming
dynasty, in the Qing Court Collection and still in Beijing,
published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum. Jadeware (II), Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 182; and
another from the Robert Youngman Collection, sold in these
rooms, 19th March 2019, lot 227.
$ 20,000-30,000
十七世紀或更早 青玉雕仿古提梁卣
來源：
史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
PROPERTY FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTON 105