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IMPORTANT CHINESE ART FROM THE JUNKUNC COLLECTION | 瓊肯珍藏重要中國藝術

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A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE ARCHAISTIC 明末/清初 十六至十八世紀 青白玉仿古拐子龍鳳紋玉卮
FOOTED CUP AND COVER
來源:
LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 16TH-18TH CENTURY
Nagatani, Inc., Chicago, 1946年5月1日。
The cylindrical cup is raised on three animal mask supports and is carved 史蒂芬 • 瓊肯三世（1978年逝）珍藏。
around the deep sides with a dragon and a phoenix confronted amidst a
ground of small comma spirals that incorporates two small chilong and a
taotie mask above the tabbed, ring handle, all below a narrow, decorative
border. The cover is carved with addorsed, stylized birds between three
small animals carved in high relief, all surrounding a circular handle with
ropetwist border. The semi-translucent stone has some some opaque
white and pale brown markings.
3æ in. (9.5 cm.) high

$50,000-70,000
PROVENANCE:
Nagatani, Inc., Chicago, 1 May 1946.
Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978) Collection.

Jade cups of this shape are known as zhi, a shape that appears to 1983-1996, pp. 111-13, p. 112, fig. 3. Also illustrated, p. 113, fig. 5, is
have been influenced by lacquer examples of late Warring States- a gilt-bronze zhi with cover of late Western Han date (206 BC-AD
Western Han date (206 BC-AD 9), such as the example with cover 23), excavated from Shaoguan, Guangdong province, The author
dated Western Han (206 BC-AD 9) illustrated by Huei-chung Tsao in notes that this type of vessel "disappeared from the range of Chinese
the exhibition catalogue, Des Empereurs à L'art Deco, Paris, 2016, p. drinking vessels after the Han dynasty, only to be re-created and re-
118, no. 96, where, p. 118, no. 95, an archaistic jade cup of this shape, styled in jade more than 1500 years later", with a more slender profile
dated Ming dynasty, 16th-17th century, is also illustrated. A drawing of and elaborate decoration. The author illustrates two of these later
this type of lacquer cup, with a bronze cover, handle and banded tripod archaistic jade examples in the Victoria and Albert Museum, dated
support, dated mid-Warring States period (476-221 BC), excavated Ming-Qing dynasty (1368-1911), p. 111. one of white jade, which has a
from Fuling, Sichuan province, is illustrated by Suning Sun-Bailey, cover, fig. 1, the other of opaque chicken bone jade, fig. 2.
"Gained in Translation", Chinese Jade: Selected Articles from Orientations
Another white jade zhi with cover and archaistic decoration, with a
Lu Zigang mark, was found in a tomb near Beijing, which is dated AD
1676. Six of the jades found in the tomb, including the cup and cover,
are illustrated by S. Howard Hansford, Chinese Carved Jades, London,
1968, pl. 83. The tomb is of the seven-year old daughter of the early
Qing statesman, Songgatu. It contained objects of the late Ming
period, and based on the date of the tomb the pieces may be dated to
the Ming-Qing transitional period.