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PROPERTY FROM THE HOSOKAWA FAMILY COLLECTION
細川家族珍藏
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A PALE CELADON JADE CARVING OF A 清十九世紀 青白玉錦荔枝
BITTER MELON 展覽

QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY 熊本縣立美術館，熊本，《高雅な文人の世界：明清の絵画
The carving is formed as three bitter melons of various sizes borne と書跡文房具》，1992 年 10 月 9 日 -11 月 8 日，圖錄圖版
on leafy tendrils. The skin of the melons is delicately carved to 123 號
simulate their uneven rind.
4¡ in. (11 cm.) long, Japanese wood box 出版
細川護貞，《一得録》，1982 年，圖版 102 號
EXHIBITED
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Kōga 比較一件尺寸略大的清代玉雕錦荔枝擺件（12.3 公分），見《故宮玉器
na bunjin no sekai : Min Shin no kaiga to shoseki bunbōgu I (The 選粹》，台北，1976 年，圖版 32 號。
Exhibition of Hosokawa Morisada Collection), 9 October-8
November 1992, Catalogue no. 123
LITERATURE
Hosokawa Morisada, Ittokutoku, 1982, no. 102
Compare to a slightly larger Qing dynasty white jade carving of bitter
melon (12.3 cm.) in the National Palace Museum collection, illustrated
in Masterworks of Chinese Jade in the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
1976, no. 32.
HK$120,000-180,000 US$16,000-23,000

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