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PROPERTY FROM THE DE AN TANG COLLECTION 清乾隆 白玉螭龍觥
A WHITE JADE ARCHAISTIC ‘CHILONG’ 展覽：
VESSEL, GONG, 《玉緣：德安堂藏玉》，永壽宮，故宮博物院，
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD 北京，2004年，編號127
21.5 cm
EXHIBITED
A Romance with Jade: From the De An Tang Collection,
Yongshougong, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2004, cat. no. 127.

HK$ 700,000-900,000
US$ 89,500-116,000

Notable for its archaistic form, this charming vessel is
exquisitely worked after the archaic bronze wine vessel gong,
a form which first appeared around the Shang dynasty. The
present piece embodies the Qing imperial taste for antiquity.
Gong is a rare shape among ancient bronze vessels, and it is
even rarer to find archaistic jade vessels after this form. See
a related gong with russet inclusions preserved in the Beijing
Palace Museum, illustrated in Li Jiu-fang, Chinese Jades
throughout the Ages – Connoisseurship of Chinese Jades,
vol. 11: Qing Dynasty, Chicago and San Francisco, 1996, pl.
45. Compare also a larger yellow jade vase worked after a
gong vessel, resting atop a recumbent mythical beast, sold
in these rooms, 3rd April 2018, lot 3636; and another yellow
jade example, without its cover, deaccessioned from the
Speed Art Museum in Louisville and sold in our New York
rooms, 24th March 2022, lot 204.

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