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an english private collection of fine jade carvings
lots 107 - 117
英國私人收藏精美玉器
拍品編號107-117
107 *
A fine Mughal-style green jade globular jar
17th/18th century
The green stone very finely hollowed to give a soft translucency to
the jarlet and delicately carved on the exterior with crisp overlapping
petals above a row of stylised leaves at the base, the foot shaped
as more petals, two small handles carved as simple scrolls, and an
exceptionally crisp and elegant ten-pointed petal motif to the interior.
13cm (5 1/8in) wide
£10,000 - 15,000
HK$120,000 - 190,000 CNY98,000 - 150,000
十七/十八世紀 痕都斯坦綠玉雕花瓣紋小罐
Provenance: an English private collection
Spink & Son Ltd., London (label)
來源:英國私人收藏
倫敦Spink & Son Ltd. (標籤)
The Mughal style of jade carving is identifiable by the fineness of the
vessel, allowing the light to shine through the translucent jade, and
the frequent use of the petal and other naturalistic motifs. Such jade
carvings (both those from the Mughal empire and others carved in
China after this style) were highly treasured, as exemplified by the
number and variety of examples extant in the Imperial collections
in the National Palace Museum, Taipei and in the Palace Museum,
Beijing.
Compare a similar green jade lidded globular jarlet, carved with a rose
with overlapping petals, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Collections of the National Museum of China: Jade, Beijing, 2007,
Taipei, illustrated in Exquisite Beauty - Islamic Jades, Taipei, 2007,
pl.197. For a related example from the Qing Court Collection, attributed
to the Qing Dynasty, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum: Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, pl.237.
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108 *
A fine white jade reticulated incense burner and
cover
19th century
Of globular form supported on a short splayed foot, the body and
cover superbly carved in openwork with a band of scrolling peony
blooms and foliage, flanked by a pair of handles with delicately-
detailed peony flowers borne on leafy stems, the domed cover
surmounted by three blossoming peonies, the semi-translucent stone
of an even white tone.
13.6cm (5¾in) wide (2).
£10,000 - 15,000
HK$120,000 - 190,000 CNY98,000 - 150,000
十九世紀 白玉鏤雕牡丹紋花薰
Provenance: an English private collection
來源:英國私人收藏
A similar white jade reticulated censer dated to the Qing Dynasty,
and another dated to the Qianlong period, are in the collection
of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and the Palace Museum,
Beijing, see Masterworks of Chinese Jade in the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, 1980, pl.28; The Complete Collection of Treasures
of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, pl.42 (from
the Qing Court Collection); and China: The Three Emperors 1662-
1795, London, 2005, pl.228. Another related jade censer from the
Qing Court Collection is illustrated in Qing Dynasty Studies of the
pl.243. See also a spinach-green jade example from the Fitzwilliam
Museum, Cambridge, dated to the Qianlong period, illustrated by
J.C.S.Lin, The Immortal Stone: Chinese jades from the Neolithic
period to the twentieth century, Cambridge, 2009, Catalogue no.85.