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PROPERTY FROM THE HEI-CHI COLLECTION Compare an undecorated Ming dynasty handled cup from the PROPERTY FROM THE HEI-CHI COLLECTION This miniature figure, probably made in the late Spring and
AN ARCHAISTIC JADE HANDLED CUP, YI collection of Helen and Peter, included in Ip Yee, Chinese Jade A WHITE JADE FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT PIG Autumn period, is meticulously carved in the round as an
MING DYNASTY Carvings, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, SPRING AND adorable recumbent pig, finely detailed with scrollwork. This
no. 213; and another carved with lychee in low relief from the style of carving is apparent on jades from the Shanxi province.
well worked to imitate the archaic bronze form, the undulating Qing court collection, preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, AUTUMN PERIOD A scabbard slide excavated from the tomb of Minister Zhou of
rim bordered with a double-groove band, the circular ring- and published in Zhongguo meishu quanji: Gongyi meishu bian with a protruding and upturned snout, the sides of the rounded State Jin at Taiyuan, for example, is carved with a serpent, a
form handle decorated with a projecting tapering flange, all [Complete series on Chinese art: Arts and crafts section], vol. body rendered with low-relief scrollwork echoing the haunches bird and a dragon and elaborated with voluminous scrollwork
supported on a gently splayed foot 9: Yuqi [Jades], Beijing, 1991, pl. 280. and short spiral tail, pierced through with an aperture, the and incised details; see The Complete Collection of Jades
11 cm, 4¼ in. white stone with light russet patches Unearthed in China, vol. 3: Shanxi, Beijing, 2005, pl. 189.
長青館藏一相類光素無紋之明代玉匜，見葉義，《中 3.7 cm, 1⅜ in. Compare also two miniature jade animal carvings from the
LITERATURE Warring States period excavated from Fenshuiling, Changzhi,
國玉雕》，香港藝術館，香港，1983年，編號213。另
Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from Hei-Chi Collection II, LITERATURE Shanxi, published ibid., pls 224 and 228.
Beijing, 2012, p. 149. 見北京故宮博物院清宮舊藏例，淺浮雕荔枝，收錄在 Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection,
《中國美術全集．工藝美術編9．玉器》，北京，1991 Beijing, 2006, p. 83. 玉豬袖珍可人，體態豐盈，腹側以卷雲作飾，應屬春
年，圖版280。 秋晚期之物，殊不易得。山西發掘所得，有不少以圓
HK$ 80,000-100,000
US$ 10,400-12,900 HK$ 200,000-300,000 潤雲紋為飾之品，如太原趙卿墓春秋晚期玉劍璏，雕
US$ 25,800-38,700 蛇、鳥及龍紋，綴以圓目，隱起卷雲，添飾陰刻，載
明 仿古玉匜 於《中國出土玉器全集》，卷3：山西，北京，2005
東周春秋時期 袖珍圓雕雲紋玉豬 年，圖版189，同書並刊長治分水嶺出土戰國獸形珮，
出版： 尺寸袖珍，滿綴卷雲，圖版224、228。
姜濤及劉雲輝，《熙墀藏玉續》，北京，2012年，頁 出版：
149 姜濤及劉雲輝，《熙墀藏玉》，北京，2006年，頁83