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A FINELY CARVED SPINACH-GREEN JADE BRUSH POT, BITONG
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The brush pot is intricately carved around the sides with a continuous
mountainous landscape. The rocks, pine and wutong trees frame various
vignettes including a scholar leaning out of a pavilion window; a scholar
holding a staf with his attendant beside him; and a scholar with his hands held
aloft, his attendant crouching by a cauldron heating a teapot. The underside of
the base is carved with a network of overlapping rocks.
6Ω in. (16.5 cm.) high
£80,000-120,000 US$100,000-150,000
€91,000-140,000
A number of spinach-green jade brush pots of similar date have been
published. Two brush pots of similar form in the National Palace Museum,
Taipei, are illustrated in The Refned Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition
of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing Court, Taipei, 1997, nos. 55
and 58. Another brush pot of this form decorated with a similar Daoism-
inspired scene was sold at Christie’s, New York, 18 March 2009, lot 411; and
an example from the Florence and Herbert Irving Collection was sold at
Christie's New York, 20 March 2019, lot 822. Examples with shallow tab feet
include one illustrated by Stanley Charles Nott in Chinese Jades Throughout
the Ages, London, 1937, pl. CXXVI, and one in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 42
- Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 207, no. 169.

清乾隆 碧玉山水人物圖筆筒
來源:
英國私人珍藏