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A VERY RARE PALE GREENISH-WHITE AND RUSSET JADE 南宋 元 十̾ 十四世㈵
YI-FORM POURING VESSEL 白褐玉匜式Ⅹ∝
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY
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The round, shallow vessel is formed as a crouching feline, with the head and open mouth
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forming the spout and a clambering tiger forming the handle. The softly polished, greenish-
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white stone has areas of russet variegation. і敦邦瀚斯
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3q in. (8.9 cm.) long
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The Reginald Howard Reed (1898-1970) and Lena (1900-1981) Palmer Collection, England, 美४聖安東尼奧
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acquired in February 1939, no. 136. :FBST PG $IJOFTF +BEFǚ
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Bonhams London, 11 June 2003, lot 6. 日 年 月 日
The LJZ Collection, United States.
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London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Chinese Jade throughout the Ages, 1 May-22 June 1975. UISPVHIPVU UIF "HFTǖ
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San Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art, 5000 Years of Chinese Jade, 1 October 2011- UIF 0SJFOUBM $FSBNJD 4PDJFUZǘ
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19 February 2012.
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J. Ayers and J. Rawson, "Chinese Jade throughout the Ages," Transactions of the Oriental 頁
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Ceramic Society, London, vol. 40, 1975, no. 383. " $BSUFS
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J. Johnson and Chan Lai Pik, 5000 Years of Chinese Jade, San Antonio, 2011, p. 92, no. 56. $IJOFTF +BEFTǘ
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A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 48-49, no. 19. 編號
Although many different animals have been the subject of Chinese jades, tigers appear to
be rare. This rare pouring vessel not only has a small tiger, identifiable by its striped body,
forming the handle, but the animal that forms the vessel may also represent a tiger, it’s open
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jaws forming the spout. A 12 -century carving of a tiger and its cub, from Jianzhong village,
Nanjing, Jiangsu province, which is stylistically similar to the tiger forming the handle on the
current vessel, is illustrated by Jenny F. So, Chinese Jades from the Cissy and Robert Tang
Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015, p. 179, fig. 36.1.

The shape and design of this vessel is a fanciful archaistic interpretation of the ritual
bronze pouring vessels, yi, produced during the early Eastern Zhou period, late 7 -6 century
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BC. These vessels were raised on four legs and had a spout shaped as an animal head and
an animal-form handle, usually a dragon. Several vessels of this type are illustrated by Jenny
F. So in Eastern Zhou Ritual Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, vol. III, Arthur M.
Sackler Foundation, 1995, pp. 344-47, no. 69 and figs. 69.1-69.5.

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