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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

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A CARVED PALE CELADON JADE RHYTON, GONG
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795), INSCRIPTION POSSIBLY LATER

The rhyton is carved to the exterior with a broad band of C-scrolls around the mouth, above
overlapping archaistic scrolls around the body. The inner mouth is inscribed with an imperial
poem followed by Qianlong jihai zhongxia yuti, ‘Imperially inscribed by Qianlong in the
summer of jihai year’, and two imperial seals reading bide and langrun.

6æ in. (17 cm.) high, box

HK$500,000-800,000                                                                                                            US$65,000-100,000

PROVENANCE

Sold at Sotheby’s Paris, 15 December 2011, lot 116

清乾隆 青白玉觥

觥內口沿有御題詩及「乾隆己亥仲夏御題」款、「比德」、「朗潤」印,可能為後
刻。

來源
巴黎蘇富比,2011年12月15日,拍品116號

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