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CHINESE JADES FROM THE COLLECTION OF T. EUGENE WORRELL
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A RARE AND LARGE BLACKISH-GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC The present vessel is based on a celebrated late Shang, 12 -11 century
GONG-FORM VESSEL AND COVER BC bronze gong from the collection of Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer that
The vessel and cover are carved with zoomorphic features and archaistic entered the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution,
motifs, including a bird-like animal protruding from the front of the body Washington DC in 1961 (acc. no. F1961.33a-b). (Fig. 1) The elaborate surface
and the sides with scrolling serpentine beasts in high relief against a leiwen decoration of dragons, birds, tigers, elephants, snakes and humans on the
ground. The handle is surmounted by a humanoid head crowned with a pair of current vessel is quite faithful to the Shang prototype, but with a few creative
blade-like projections, and is supported on two firmly planted paw feet. The additions, such as the small human head carved in relief on the lower body of
cover is carved at the front with a beast with large curved horns and at the the vessel between the two front supports.
back with a bovine mask with large pointed horns, the sides with two felines
against a leiwen ground. The stone is of a deep blackish-green tone with white T. EUGENE WORRELL珍藏中國玉器
speckling throughout. The base is inscribed with a Qianlong fanggu mark.
14æ in. (37.5 cm.), softwood stand 黑青玉仿古瑞獸紋觥
來源:
$15,000-25,000 紐約蘇富比, 2000年3月22日, 拍品編號14
展覽:
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s New York, 22 March 2000, lot 14. 棕櫚灘, 佛羅里達州, 諾頓藝術博物館
聖彼德斯堡, 佛羅里達州, 聖彼德斯堡藝術館
EXHIBITED:
Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery of Art. 夏洛茨維爾, Worrell家族藝廊, 2000-2022年
St. Petersburg, Florida, St. Petersburg Museum of Fine Art. 出版:
Charlottesville, Worrell Family Offices Gallery, 2000-2022. H. H. F. Jayne, 《The Chinese Collections in the Norton Gallery and School
LITERATURE: of Art》, 棕櫚灘, 佛羅里達州, 1972年, 編號248
H. H. F. Jayne, The Chinese Collections in the Norton Gallery and School of Art,
Palm Beach, Florida, 1972, no. 248.

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Fig. 1 A bronze lidded ritual ewer (guang) with taotie, dragons, birds, (another view)
tigers, elephants, fish, snakes, and humans, c. 1100–1050 BCE. Freer
Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of
Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer, F1961.33a-b.
青銅饕餮獸紋觥, 大約公元前 1100-1050 年, 華盛頓特區弗利爾藝術館藏,
Eugene及Agnes E. Meyer伉儷捐贈, 館藏編號52.49.33

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