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The Property of a Lady 女士藏品 fig. 1 A white jade ‘deer-handles’ cup and saucer,
Qing Dynasty; image courtesy of the Palace Mu-
145 seum, Beijing.
A rare white jade two-handled ‘deer’ cup
Qianlong fanggu six-character mark and of the period Fine Chinese Art | 181
The stone of very even white with attractive light
cloudiness and carved as a simple cup incised with a
band of key-fret at the foot and the rim, each handle
also incised with key-fret on the sides and surmounted
by an antlered deer crouching with front hooves resting
on the cup lip.
10cm (4in) wide
£8,000 - 12,000
HK$94,000 - 140,000 CNY75,000 - 110,000
清乾隆 白玉雕雙鹿耳杯 描金「大清乾隆仿古」楷書
刻款
The present white jade cup is particularly rare for the
deer finely carved with their forelegs placed on the
rim of the cup. Compare a related octagonal jade
cup and saucer, from the Qing Court Collection, with
‘deer’ handles, dated to the Qing Dynasty, illustrated
in The Complete Collections of Treasures of the Palace
Museum: Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, pl.205 (see
fig.1 right).
A related pair of small square white jade cups, 18th
century, was recently sold at Sotheby’s New York on
