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Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic
PROPERTY FROM THE ZHIJINGZHAI COLLECTION
and Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing Court, National Palace
A YELLOW AND RUSSET JADE EAR-CUP Museum, Taipei, 1997, cat. no. 31, together with a spinach-
QING DYNASTY green jade example, cat. no. 32.
of archaistic form, the shallow oval-shaped bowl with sturdy The inspiration of the cup is Han dynasty lacquer ear-cups,
sides rising from a short foot, the sides flanked by a pair of such as one in the British Museum, gift of Brooke Sewell,
elongated ‘ear’ handles, each handle carved in relief with a with an inscription noting that it was made for the emperor in
taotie mask, the lustrous stone of a warm yellow colour with AD 4 at the Western Factory workshop in Shunow, Sichuan
russet markings to the underside and edge of one handle Province, illustrated by Sir Harry Garner, Chinese Lacquer,
14.6 cm, 5¾ in. London, 1979, p. 43, pl. 13.
HK$ 200,000-300,000 香港蘇富比1979年12月6日曾售一造型相若之青白玉
US$ 25,500-38,300 近例，編號1084。同可比較一乾隆黃玉耳盃，尺寸較
小，光素無紋，售於香港蘇富比2015年4月7日，編號
清 黃玉耳盃
3606。相類之白玉器，偶有見之，台北故宮博物院藏
一例，鐫乾隆四字篆，載於《宮廷之雅：清代仿古及
Another closely related jade ear-cup carved with similar 畫意玉器特展圖錄》，國立故宮博物院，台北，1997
handles, but worked from a celadon jade, was sold in these 年，編號31；同書尚有一碧玉作例，編號32。
rooms 6th December 1979, lot 1084. Compare also a
yellow jade ear-cup from the Qianlong period, but smaller
in size and undecorated, was sold in these rooms, 7th April 此器形源思先漢漆盃，例可見大英博物館 Brooke
2015, lot 3606. Another white jade ear-cup with archaistic Sewell 惠贈之彩漆耳盃，據銘，乃公元4年西廠為蜀
decoration in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, incised 國皇帝所製，圖見於 Harry Garner 爵士，《Chinese
with a Qianlong four-character seal mark, is illustrated in The Lacquer》，倫敦，1979年，頁43，圖版13。

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