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PROPERTY FROM THE DE AN TANG COLLECTION 清乾隆 白玉鳳紋仿古三環蓋壺
A WHITE JADE ARCHAISTIC ‘KUI-PHOENIX’ 展覽：
POURING VESSEL AND COVER, 《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128
18.5 cm
EXHIBITED
A Romance with Jade: From the De An Tang Collection,
Yongshougong, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2004, cat. no. 128.

HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 103,000-154,000

The form of the present jade vessel derived from archaic
ritual bronze pouring vessel of similar shape dating
to the Zhou dynasty. See for example a very similarly
shaped bronze Hu vessel, dated to the Eastern Zhou
dynasty, formerly in the Arthur M. Sackler collection in the
Smithsonian Institute, illustrated in Jenny So, Eastern Ritual
Bronzes from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, New York,
1995, p. 236, no. 39. Encouraged by the Qianlong Emperor’s
passion for the Antique, Qing craftsmen began to look at
the past for inspiration and adapt the forms and designs
of archaic jades and bronzes into their pieces. This vessel
belongs to a renowned group of large archaistic white jades
commissioned by the Qing court from the Qianlong period,
several of them are still preserved in the Palace Museum
Beijing, see two examples illustrated in The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (III),
Hong Kong, 1995, nos 136 and 143.

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