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The present lot with its intricate openwork interlocking sections is a 此玉杯形制仿漢代酒器卮而作，參看江蘇徐州博物館藏一件西漢灰玉
masterful achievement of jade craftsmanship. In form it is inspired 卮，見J.C.S.Lin編，《The Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of
by Han dynasty jade cups; see for example a yellowish-green jade Han China》，劍橋，2012年，圖版58。但此玉雕卮用鏤雕技法將器
cup, zhi, Western Han dynasty, from Xuzhou Museum, Jiangsu 身雕刻成「山」字形榫，相互交錯套連，更顯玉匠高超技藝。
Province, illustrated by J.C.S.Lin, ed., The Search for Immortality:
Tomb Treasures of Han China, Cambridge, 2012, pl.58. The Qing jade 清宮舊藏中亦有一件清代青玉雙聯夔紋熏筒，其鏤雕手法與此玉卮類
craftsman adeptly carving the openwork sections, has elevated the 似，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系：玉器（下）》，北京，頁41，
cup from an ordinary utilitarian container to an extraordinary work of art 圖版33。另見一件元/明清白玉杯，著錄於Wu Hung與B.Morgan，
to be handled and admired for its ingenuity. 《木扉珍藏玉器》，Bluett & Sons，倫敦，1990，編號60。

Compare a reticulated jade incense holder, Qing dynasty, from the
Qing Court Collection, with similar interlocking geometric sections
carved in low relief with gui dragons, illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (II),
p.41, pl.33; for another related interlocking pale green jade vessel,
(attributed to the Yuan-Ming dynasty), see the Bluett & Sons, London
catalogue by Wu Hung and B.Morgan, Chinese Jades from the Mu-Fei
Collection, London, 1990, no.60.

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