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CHINESE JADES FROM THE COLLECTION OF T. EUGENE WORRELL T. EUGENE WORRELL珍藏中國玉器
722 乾隆己酉年 (1789) 御題灰褐玉角形盃
A VERY RARE IMPERIALLY INSCRIBED GREY, RUSSET AND 玉: 清乾隆或以前
BLACK JADE RHYTON, GONG
THE JADE QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) OR EARLIER; 來源:
THE INSCRIPTION INCORPORATING A CYCLICAL DATE, JIYOU, Gerald Godfrey珍藏
CORRESPONDING TO 1789 AND OF THE PERIOD The Gerald Godfrey Private Collection of Fine Chinese Jades, 香港佳士得,
The exterior is carved in relief with archaistic motifs including an elaborate 1995年10月30日, 拍品編號905
winged taotie below bands of 'C'-scrolls, rope-twist and key-fret pattern. The 展覽:
interior of the rim is incised with an eight-line poem composed by the Qianlong
Emperor dated to the jiyou year, corresponding to 1789, followed by two seals. 聖安東尼奧, 聖安東尼奧藝術博物館, 1986年
The stone is of a pale grey color with opaque russet and black markings. 代頓, 代頓美術館, 1989年1日
5Ω in. (14 cm.) high, metal stand 休斯頓, 美術館, 1990-1991年
夏洛茨維爾, Worrell家族藝廊, 1995-2022年
$60,000-80,000 出版:
PROVENANCE: C. W. Kelley, 《Stones of Virtue: Chinese Jades from the Gerald Godfrey
The Gerald Godfrey Collection. Collection》, 代頓, 1989年, 頁47, 編號238
The Gerald Godfrey Private Collection of Fine Chinese Jades; Christie's Hong
Kong, 30 October 1995, lot 905.

EXHIBITED:
San Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986.
Dayton, The Dayton Art Institute, January 1989.
Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, 1990-1991.
Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, 1995-2022.
LITERATURE:
C. W. Kelley, Stones of Virtue: Chinese Jades from the Gerald Godfrey
Collection, Dayton, 1989, p. 47, no. 238.
As on many Qianlong archaistic vessels, the poetic inscription reveals
Qianlong’s veneration of ancient forms and his view that standards had fallen
and should be rectified.
The poems employ quotations from the Confucian philosopher Mencius and
can be translated:
"This gong appears to be made in the Han, but is it really?
Harmonious and abundant in appearance (like the superior man)
If not Shang, then certainly it must be Zhou.
Its quality is like that of mutton fat.
More precious and refined than the 'Dragon tail' rock of Anhui.
(Mencius says) 'Half the work and double the result'
From this can you understand the importance of scholarship?" (another view)
A nearly identical grey, russet, and black jade rhyton dated to 1787 of the
Qianlong period was sold at Sotheby's Paris, 9 June 2011, lot 23. Other cups
of this form include one sold at Christie’s London, 5 June 1995, lot 352,
carved with archaistic motifs and with an inscription inside the rim. Both
cups can be compared to a dark-green inscribed gong illustrated by Yang
Boda in "Jade," Arts of Asia, March-April, 1992, fig. 19, and to an example
carved from dark green stone and illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji,, Qing,
vol. 6, no. 25, with similar archaistic scrolls.

(detail of inscription) The poems inscribed on the interior of the present vessel, published in the Fifth
Anthology of Imperial Poetry, vol. 44.
此玉觥內所刻詩文，見於《御製詩五集》，卷四十四

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