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AN ARCHAISTIC MOTTLED CELADON AND
BROWN JADE CONG

LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The jade cong is of cylindrical form with square projections on four sides, carved with four
registers of taotie masks and trigrams, all supported on a circular narrow base.
6Õ/”ÿ in. (16 cm.) high, metal cover
HK$300,000-500,000 US$39,000-64,000

Compare to a slightly larger jade cong (19 cm.) with similar motifs in the National Palace Museum,
Taipei (fig. 1), which is inscribed with a Qianlong imperial poem on the sides.

晚明/清初 仿古雕饕餮紋玉方琮
fig. 1 Collection of the National
琮外圓內方，上寬下微歛，分四節，每節琢雕面紋及八卦紋。相似例可比 較台北故宮博物院藏一件明 Palace Museum, Taipei
晚期至清早期玉琮（圖一），略高（19公分），分四節，四面中軸線上刻乾隆五十八年（1793）御製詩 圖一 國立故宮博物院藏品
一首。院方推測其 藏品或原為新石器時代的素面玉琮，明清之際改刀呈四節琮瓶現貌。

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