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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
士紳珍藏
3060
AN EXQUISITE IMPERIAL WHITE JADE TEAPOT 清乾隆 御製白玉雕菊花紋茶壺
AND COVER
來源:
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) 倫敦斯賓克，1943年11月（圖一）
The teapot is of a tapering rectangular section supported on a E.J.C. Vint（1894-1971）
conforming low waisted foot. It is delicately carved in shallow relief 香港佳士得，2008年12月3日，拍品2604號
to each side with blossoming peony branches below a lipped rim,
flanked by an angular spout and rounded handle. The tiered cover is
surmounted by a reticulated dragon-form finial. The stone is of an
even creamy white tone.
7º (18.5 cm.) wide
HK$10,000,000-15,000,000 US$1,300,000-1,900,000
P R O V E NAN C E :
Messrs. Spink & Son, London, November 1943 (fig. 1)
E.J.C. Vint (1894-1971)
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 December 2008, lot 2604

The present teapot and cover was in the collection of E.J.C. Vint. Edward
John CyrilVint was born May 14, 1894 in Bradford at Richmond House.
Richmond House was home to a family of collectors and they were a well
established family in the wool trade. After returning from the trenches
of the First War he moved to Worcestershire where he established a
successful fruit farm and it was here from about 1937 onwards that
he really started his collection of Jades, having already established an
important collection of Ivory and Amber.

Three generations of the Vint family: John, Diana and E. J. C. Vint, fig. 1
photo taken in 1960 on their fruit farm in Jersey 圖一
E. J. C. Vint與孫三人，1960年攝於其家族位於英國澤西島之果園

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