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AN EXCEPTIONAL AND 清乾隆
LARGE WHITE JADE BRUSH 和闐白玉童子萬年如意筆洗

WASHER AND SILVER-INLAID
來源：
WOOD STAND 史坦萊諾．查理斯．樂提收藏
紐約佳士得2007年3月22日，編號98
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG 出版：
PERIOD 史坦萊諾．查理斯．樂提，《Chinese Jades in the Stanley
Charles Nott Collection》，西棕櫚灘，1942年，頁378-379，
the substantial white boulder exuberantly worked into a 圖版LXXXIV，編號74
lingzhi-shaped vessel with generous thick walls curving
inwards towards the rim, borne on a thick leafy stem issuing
clusters of smaller lingzhi heads around the exterior, flanked
by two crouching boys holding on to the walls, their chubby
faces with a cheerful expression, the hair gathered into two
topknots, clasping a ruyi sceptre and a spray of Chinese
evergreen in their hands respectively, the well-polished stone
of an attractive opaque white tone, the original wood stand
intricately carved with lingzhi shrubs growing from cragged
rocks, above a pierced apron inlaid with archaistic scrolls and
ruyi strapwork in silver wire
17.8 cm, 7 in.

PROVENANCE
Collection of Stanley Charles Nott.
Christie’s New York, 22nd March 2007, lot 98.
LITERATURE
Stanley Charles Nott, Chinese Jades in the Stanley Charles
Nott Collection, West Palm Beach, 1942, pp. 378-379, pl.
LXXXIV, no. 74.

HK$ 12,000,000-15,000,000
US$ 1,540,000-1,920,000

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