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 PROPERTY FROM THE AOYAMA STUDIO COLLECTION  元   朱面剔犀盞托
 A CINNABAR ‘TIXI’ LACQUER CUP STAND
 YUAN DYNASTY  木盒題識：
 刷毛目根來塗，樓花式天目臺。历大隅藏。
 the hollow bowl with a lipped rim collared with a circular dish,
 all supported on a flared foot, carved through alternating
 layers of cinnabar and black lacquer, the interior lacquered
 brownish-black, Japanese wood box inscribed Okuma/Osumi
 zō (Collection of Okuma/Osumi)
 15.2 cm, 6 in.
 HK$ 200,000-300,000
 US$ 25,800-38,700






















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            PROPERTY FROM THE HEI-CHI COLLECTION        Exquisitely carved, the present piece represents one of the
            A JADE ARC-SHAPED ‘ANIMAL MASK’             rarest, most prestigious type of jade ornaments reserved
            ORNAMENT                                    only for nobility in the Wu and Chu states in the late Spring
                                                        and Autumn period. A closely related arc-shaped ornament
            EASTERN ZHOU DYNASTY, SPRING AND            of comparable size and design was unearthed in Yangshan,
            AUTUMN PERIOD                               Jiangsu. The excavated example is similarly modelled with a
                                                        pair of confronting animal masks flanked by bird heads. Unlike
            the convex surface divided into two registers with a raised   the present example, however, the reverse is decorated and
            band, each of the register skilfully worked with an animal   there is a small movable ring, carved from the same block
            mask flanked by a pair of birds, each detailed with a hooked   of jade, originally fitted to one end of the ornament; see Yao
            beak and round eye, all between two flanges decorated with   Qinde with an introduction by Hsio-Yen Shih, ‘Spring and
            scrollwork and pierced with two apertures   Autumn Period Jades from the State of Wu’, Chinese Jade:
            6.3 by 5.3 cm, 2½ by 2⅛ in.
                                                        Selected Articles from Orientations 1983-2003, Hong Kong,
                                                        2005, pp. 114-119, fig. 12, together with a parrot-head arc-
            LITERATURE                                  shaped ornament, fig. 13.
            Jiang Tao and Liu Yunhui, Jades from the Hei-Chi Collection,
            Beijing, 2006, pp. 80-81 top.
                                                        此飾精緻入微，匠心獨運，極為罕見，應為春秋晚期
                                                        吳、楚等地高等貴族所用之物。參考江蘇嚴山出土拱
            HK$ 240,000-300,000                         形活環珮，其尺寸與此相若，中間同樣飾有凸脊，兩
            US$ 31,000-38,700
                                                        邊琢獸面，對稱相視，每獸兩側鳥首各一，尖喙圓
                                                        目，背面也有雕飾，從同一玉料雕成之小繫仍存，圖
            東周春秋時期   玉獸面紋拱形飾                            見吳縣文物管理委員會，〈江蘇吳縣春秋吳國玉器窖
                                                        藏〉，《文物》，1988年11期，頁1-16，彩圖1，並見
            出版：                                         鸚鵡首拱形玉飾，背面光素，彩圖3。
            姜濤及劉雲輝，《熙墀藏玉》，北京，2006年，頁80-81
            上




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