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A RARE CARVED LONGQUAN CELADON ‘FLORAL’ 明初 龍泉青釉刻四季花卉紋盌
BOWL
EARLY MING DYNASTY 來源：
京都天龍寺收藏
the exterior well carved with floral blooms, including lotus,
chrysanthemum and peony amidst dense foliage, the interior 日本關西家族收藏
similarly decorated with a hibiscus bloom in the centre issuing
from rockwork, Edo period wood box
20.3 cm, 8 in.

PROVENANCE
Collection of Tenryū-ji Temple (Sky Dragon Temple), Kyoto.
A Kansai family collection.

HK$ 400,000-500,000
US$ 52,000-64,500

A bowl of similar form and design, illustrated by Julian
Thompson, ‘Chinese Celadons, the Collection of Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Chia’, Arts of Asia, November-December 1993, fig. 18, was
sold in these rooms, 5th November 1996, lot 634. Compare
also a bowl in the Idemitsu Museum, Tokyo, illustrated in
Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl.
604, and another from the Dawentang collection, illustrated by
Peter Lam, Chinese Ceramics from the Dawentang Collection,
Hong Kong, 2019, cat. no. 24.
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PROPERTY FROM THE HEI-CHI COLLECTION 東周春秋時期 青白玉獸面紋牌飾
A CELADON JADE ‘ANIMAL MASK’ PLAQUE
EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, SPRING AND 出版：
AUTUMN PERIOD 姜濤及劉雲輝，《熙墀藏玉》，北京，2006年，頁71
河南寶相寺黃國國君孟之墓出土一相類玉飾，圖見《
skilfully worked on one side with the upper trapezoidal section
rendered with double-line scrollwork and pierced with three 中國出土玉器全集》，卷5：河南，北京，2005年，圖
apertures, including a pair of reverse U-form, the lower section 版184。另可參考山東沂水劉家店子之獸面玉飾，同上
depicting the animal mask, the reverse with one bevelled 註，卷4：山東，圖版181，同墓並發掘得一串玉飾，
section, the top and base of the plaque with two further 其中二十四件玉牌上刻較簡化的獸面紋，圖版182。
apertures
5 cm, 2 in.
LITERATURE
Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection,
Beijing, 2006, p. 71.
HK$ 100,000-200,000
US$ 12,900-25,800
A closely related plaque excavated from the tomb of Meng,
the monarch of the State of Huang, Baoxiangsi, Henan, is
published in The Complete Collection of Jades Unearthed in
China, vol. 5: Henan, Beijing, 2005, pl. 184; and another single
example, together with a string of 24 plaques incised with
simplified animal masks, was excavated from Liujiadianzi,
Yishu, Shandong, illustrated ibid., vol. 4: Shandong, pls 181-2.

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