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AN EXCEPTIONAL AND EXTREMELY RARE 清乾隆 御製紫檀嵌後刻御製詩古玉璧插屏
DATED ZITAN-MOUNTED ARCHAIC JADE DISC, 玉：《乾隆乙末春御題》款 「得佳趣」印
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ZHOU DYNASTY, THE INSCRIPTION AND THE 屏：《乾隆乙末春月御題》款 「得佳趣」印
STAND DATED TO 1775
來源：
the smoothly patinated stone of a creamy beige tone naturally 歐洲私人收藏
streaked with honey-brown inclusions, crisply later incised 香港蘇富比2013年4月8日，編號3010
on one side in clerical script with an imperial poem praising
the beauty of the treasured jade, signed Qianlong yiwei chun
yuti (‘Imperial inscription in the yiwei year of the Qianlong
period’, corresponding to 1775), followed by the seal de jiaqu
(‘obtaining refined enjoyment’), mounted within a deftly
carved zitan table screen, secured with a central wood boss
detailed with a trigram qian flanked by a pair of kui dragons,
all enclosed within a key-fret ring, densely carved overall with
archaistic scroll motifs, save for a circular medallion on the
reverse, picked out in gilt with an almost identical inscription
differing only in one character on the date Qianlong yiwei chun
yue yuti, ending with the same seal de jiaqu
h. 22.8 cm, 9 in.
PROVENANCE
A European private collection.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8th April 2013, lot 3010.

HK$ 7,000,000-9,000,000
US$ 905,000-1,160,000

fig. 1
Qing Gaozong yuzhi shiwen quanji [Anthology of imperial Qianlong poems
and text], yuzhi shi si ji [Imperial poetry, vol. 4], vol. 38, p. 3
圖一
《清高宗御製詩文全集．御製詩四集》，卷38，頁3

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