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A RARE SPINACH-GREEN JADE ‘PEACH’
VASE, MEIPING
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The vase is superbly carved on the exterior with a broad band of
peach fruits and leaves borne on gnarled branches on the body.
The shoulder is carved with four of the Bajixiang ‘Eight Buddhist
Emblems’ enclosed within ruyi heads, separated by plantain leaves.
The foot is similarly decorated with the rest of the four Bajixiang
below bats. The base is incised with a six-character Qianlong reign
mark in regular script.
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high, box
HK$1,000,000-2,000,000 US$130,000-260,000
PROVENANCE
Sold at Christie’s London, 8 June 2004, lot 434
It is rare to find a jade vase in meiping form. The form of the current
vase is very similar to that of porcelain meiping made at the Imperial
kilns during the Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns. A slightly larger
spinach-green jade meiping (26.7 cm.) of very similar design was
formerly in the Qing Court Collection, now in the Palace Museum,
Beijing. The vase is similarly carved on the body with peach branches,
floral blooms enclosed within ruyi heads on the shoulder, and lotus
flowers within upright petals around the foot (fig. 1). It is illustrated
in Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 64. fig. 1 Collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing
圖一 北京故宮博物院藏品

清十八世紀 碧玉雕蟠桃八吉祥紋梅瓶
底部刻「大清乾隆年製」楷書款。

來源
倫敦佳士得，2004年6月8日，拍品434號

玉質梅瓶為數不多，本器與雍正乾隆官窯瓷胎梅瓶之器形非常接近，應
為宮廷陳設用品。清宮舊藏一件尺寸略大但紋飾非常相似的碧玉梅瓶
（26.7 公分），腹部同樣雕蟠桃紋，肩部如意開光內飾花卉紋，脛部雕
蓮瓣一周，內飾蓮紋（圖一），著錄於故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集《玉
器（下）》，香港，1995 年，圖 64 號。

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