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A PALE CELADON JADE RAFT
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
worked in the form of a long sampan boat with a curved woven canopy, with a deer and a crane seated recumbent at the prow,
the bird clutching a leafy spray of peaches in its beak, at the rear a figure standing in long robes and a straw hat beside a basket of
flowers, the hands raised steering a long paddle journeying atop a bed of swirling waves, the stone of an even pale celadon tone,
carved wood stand.

清乾隆 青白玉鶴鹿慶壽船
17.7 cm, 7 in.
HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 51,000-76,50

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Lieutenant Colonel John John Grenville Fortescue 中校（1896-1969年）
Grenville Fortescue (1896-1969), Dropmore, 收藏，白金漢郡德羅普莫爾及康瓦爾郡 Boconnoc，
Buckinghamshire, and Boconnoc, Cornwall, thence 此後家族傳承
by descent. John Sparks，約1960年
John Sparks, c. 1960. S. Marchant & Son，倫敦
S. Marchant & Son, London. 展覽
EXHIBITED 《90th Anniversary Exhibition: Ninety Jades for
Ninety Jades for 90 Years, S. Marchant & Son, 90 Years》，S. Marchant & Son，倫敦，2015
London, 2015, cat. no. 78. 年，編號78

Sampan were commonly found on lakes and rivers of China in the 18th and 19th centuries, and numerous carvings in jade of
these vessels have survived. For similar examples in museum collections, see one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated
in Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jades], vol. 6, p. 191, no. 274. Compare a related jade boat fitted with
a similarly elaborate wood stand of cresting waves in the collection of the Seattle Art Museum, published in James C. Y. Watt,
Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1989, p. 86, cat. no. 64.

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