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PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION 清乾隆 青玉雕雙魚盤
AN EXTREMELY RARE INSCRIBED ARCHAISTIC 《大清乾隆倣古》款
CELADON JADE ‘TWIN FISH’ BASIN 御題詩文：
MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG 歲貢來回部 因材作器徐 抵非幾群鵲 置有一雙魚
誰擊豪賓鋏 難尋遠客書 中孚如玩象 慎德正殷予
carved with thick, upright sides rising from a low stepped
foot, the center of the interior carved in extremely high relief 乾隆丙戌春御題
with a pair of conjoined ‘twin fish’, the fish undercut and 印文：
their scales, fins, and eyes incised for a sculptural effect, 德充符
the perimeter of the well with an incised Imperial poem in
regular script followed by Qianlong bingxu chun yuti (Imperial 來源：
inscription in the bingwu year of the Qianlong period) and a 中國私人收藏
seal reading dechong fu (Sign of Virtue Within), the exterior Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.，紐約，1949年1月11至12
sides carved in high relief with a band of abstract designs
divided into eight units, the recessed base inscribed with 日，編號312
the six-character mark Da Qing Qianlong Fang Gu (Made in Abraham Block 醫生 (1903-1980) 收藏，此後家族傳承
the Qianlong era of the Great Qing in imitation of antiquity),
the stone an opaque celadon color with a grayish tinge and
passages of brown and white, wood stand (2)
Diameter 7¾ in., 19.6 cm
PROVENANCE
Chinese Private Collection.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 11th-12th January
1949, lot 312.
Collection of Dr. Abraham Block (1903-1980), and thence by
descent.
$ 200,000-300,000

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