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A RARE AND FINELY CARVED PALE GREENISH-WHITE 清γ隆 青白玉瑞鳥ઘ桃擺Ы
AND RUSSET JADE 'BIRD AND PEACH' GROUP
Ϝ源
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
"OUIPOZ $BSUFS
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年 月 日
-+;珍藏
美४
The group is formed as a recumbent bird grasping a leafy sprig bearing two peaches in its
beak, with the feathers neatly fanned and finely incised. A four-character Qianlong seal mark 展覽
is inscribed on the underside. The stone is primarily of a pale greenish-white tone with areas 美४聖安東尼奧
聖安東尼奧美術館
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of russet. :FBST PG $IJOFTF +BEFǚ
年 月
日 年 月 日
3æ in. (9.6 cm.) long
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$100,000-150,000 + +PIOTPO及陳麗碧
Ǘ :FBST PG
$IJOFTF +BEFǘ
聖安東尼奧
年
頁
編號
PROVENANCE:
Anthony Carter, London, 20 September 2005. " $BSUFS
Ǘ5IF -+; $PMMFDUJPO PG
$IJOFTF +BEFTǘ
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年
頁
The LJZ Collection, United States.
編號
EXHIBITED:
San Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art, 5000 Years of Chinese Jade, 1 October 2011-
19 February 2012.
LITERATURE:
J. Johnson and Chan Lai Pik, 5000 Years of Chinese Jade, San Antonio, 2011, p. 122, no. 85.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 92-93, no. 40.
It is very rare to find a jade animal or bird carving bearing a Qianlong mark. This carving (mark)
may have been intended as a gift, as the motif of two peaches represents the wish, “may
you live long” (changshou). This motif can also be seen in two earlier jade carvings. One is
illustrated in Dr. Newton’s Zoo: A Study of post-Archaic Small Jade Carvings, Bluett & Sons
Ltd., London, 1981, pp. 18-19, no. 21 and Pl. IV, where it is dated Tang dynasty; the other
described as a phoenix and dated Song, is illustrated by James C. Watt, Chinese Jades
from Han to Ch’ing, The Asia Society, 1980, p. 96, no. 80. A white and russet jade carving
of two birds facing each other (11.5 cm.), which exhibits carving very similar to the present
figure, in the Qing Court Collection, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures
of the Palace Museum - 42 - Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 102, pl. 82.

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