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RARE POT A PINCEAUX EN JADE VERT EPINARD
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME SIECLE
Il repose sur cinq petits pieds légèrement recourbés. Le pourtour
est entièrement sculpté d'une scène animée représentant Shoulao
tenant dans ses mains une pêche de longévité accompagné de cinq
jeunes garçons. Ils évoluent sur la terrasse d'un pavillon à l'ombre
des pins. De l'autre côté sont représentés un daim et son petit devant
un pavillon surplombant une terrasse escarpée dans un paysage
rocailleux. La partie supérieure de la face principale porte une
inscription incisée à quatre caractères, Ming Ming Nian Zao ('fait
durant le règne de l'empereur Minh Mang', 1820-1841), avec deux
petits cachets.
Hauteur: 15 cm. (5¬ in.)

€150,000-250,000 US$170,000-280,000
£130,000-220,000

PROVENANCE:
French private collection, acquired in 1985 in Paris.
A RARE AND IMPORTANT FINELY CARVED SPINACH GREEN
JADE BRUSH POT
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
清十八世紀 碧玉山水風景賀壽圖筆筒
來源：法國私人珍藏，于1985年購自巴黎藝術品市場

The present brush pot belongs to a group of spinach jade brush
pots carved with scenes of immortals in landscapes. On the front
of the brushpot, Shoulao, carrying a peach, and his attendant, both
representing long life and immortality. This wish is furthered by
the presence of pine trees also symbolic of longevity. Finally, a pair
of deers, known to accompany Shoulao, the god of Longevity, and
themselves symbols of immortality, can be seen nestling on the other
side of the brush pot.
Some of them have the title of the scene incised on rockwork and an
imperial poem around the top of the mouth rim. On our example the
rockwork where we often fnd a poetic inscription has been used to
engrave the mark of Vietnamese Emperor Minh Mang (1820-1841). As
a vassal of Chinese Emperor, Vietnamese emperors used to collect
Chinese porcelain and works of art. This brush pot must have been
part of Minh Mang collection.
See a related brush pot without inscriptions in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum - 42 - Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 209, no.
170 and one in the Florence and Herbert Irving collection sold at
Christie's New York, 20 March 2019, lot 822, another one in the Alan
and Simone Hartman collection sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27
November 2007, lot 2388 and another one at Christie's London, 16
May 2008, lot 54.

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