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A WHITE JADE 'RAM' LOBED TEAPOT AND COVER Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911) Hindustan Jade in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1983. A teapot with
The globular teapot is carved with lobed sides, with the spout in the form of a trifd jade handles and a ram's head spout is illustrated on p. 275, pl. 74 (fg.
ram's head, the curled horns resting upon the sides, opposite a C-scroll handle. 6). For a related lobed teapot with a ram's-head spout and cloisonné enamel
The domed cover is similarly-formed with lobed sides below a bud-form fnial. handle, with an engraved Jiaqing yuyong mark, see The Complete Collection
The stone is of an even white tone. of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (III), no. 216 (fg. 5). Another
8¡ in. (21.3 cm.) wide example of this type is in the collection of Sir John Woolf, illustrated in The
£30,000-50,000 US$38,000-62,000 Woolf Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2013. An example dating to the
€34,000-57,000 Qianlong period but without inscription was sold at Sotheby’s, Hong Kong, 3
October 2017, lot 3613.
The present teapot relates to a series of Qianlong period (1736-1795) jade
teapots, ewers and other vessels carved with a ram’s head handles or spouts.
This type of jade vessel appears to have been inspired by the Qianlong 清 白玉羊形茶壺
emperor’s fascination for Hindustani jades, which he began to collect in
1756. Examples from the imperial collection can be found in the National

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