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AN ARCHAISTIC CELADON JADE YI-FORM VESSEL
MING DYNASTY
the rounded body of oval section set over a conforming foot and rising to an everted rim, the rim extending at one end for pouring, the opposite end
set with a scrolling loop handle, the exterior sides with a central register of raised bosses divided by vertical flanges imitating those on ancient bronze
ritual vessels, the stone a pale green color flecked with icy white inclusions and fine russet veins

明 青玉雕乳釘紋匜
Length 4⅝ in., 11.7 cm
$ 5,000-7,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan B. Hart. Ivan B. Hart 伉儷收藏
Weisbrod Chinese Art Ltd., New York, 26th September Weisbrod Chinese Art Ltd.，紐約，2002年9月26日
2002. 出版
LITERATURE 羅伯特•楊門，《楊門藏玉：中國玉器·新石器時代至
Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection of 清代》，芝加哥，2008年，圖版208
Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 2008,
pl. 208.

Compare a Ming dynasty yellowish white jade vessel of this form, but with its cover, in the collection of the Tianjin Museum
of Art, published in Zhongguo bowuguan congshu: Tiajinshi yishu bowuguan [Chinese Museums Series: Tianjin City Art
Museum], vol. 6, Beijing, 1984, pl. 204; and a Ming dynasty white jade example with plain sides and a chilong-form handle in
the collection of the Freer Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., acc. no. S1987.726.

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AN ARCHAISTIC SPINACH-GREEN JADE GUI-FORM CENSER
MING DYNASTY
the broad U-shaped body supported on a short circular foot and flanked by a pair of angular handles, the exterior of the body carved with three rows
of raised bosses between a raised fillet above and below, the stone a grayish-green color accented with black flecks and veins of darker green

明 碧玉雕乳釘紋簋式爐
Width 4⅞ in., 12.3 cm
$ 3,000-5,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ivan B. Hart. Ivan B. Hart 伉儷收藏
Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd., New York, 26th September Weisbrod Chinese Art, Ltd.，紐約，2002年9月26日
2002.

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