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八 89. Imperial jar of round baluster form, carved in high relief with three open-winged phoenix birds, their claws together above the flat foot

十 rim, the stone of sea-green spinach tone with darker natural markings.

九 3 ⅞ inches, 9.8 cm high.

The underside with an incised four-character sealmark of Jiaqing and of the period, 1796-1820 (with slight traces of gilt in the mark).
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鳥 • From a private family collection in Scotland.
罐 • Purchased from Louis Lyons in 1980. Louis Lyons left most of his collection to the Kelvin Grove Museum in Glasgow.

碧 • A similar white jade example, bearing a four-character Qianlong sealmark, is illustrated by Xu Xiao Dong in Compendium of
玉 Collections in the Palace Museum, Jade, Vol.10, Qing Dynasty, Gu Gong inventory no. Gu 98846, no. 99, p. 136, and is also
illustrated by Zhang Guang Wen in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (II), where the author

嘉 describes the birds as “heavenly cocks”, no. 29, p. 37. The author together illustrates a Qing dynasty archaic-style version, also
慶 from the Qing Court Collection, no. 28, p. 36.

• A Tang dynasty prototype, in the Qing Court Collection, is illustrated by Yang Xin in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the

「 Palace Museum, Jadeware (I), no. 188, p. 80, where the author mentions the gap behind the bird heads could have been used to
嘉 suspend the jar.

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