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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION 清乾隆 白玉瓜瓞綿綿雙蝶活環耳蓋瓶
A SUPERBLY CARVED WHITE JADE ‘MELON’
VASE AND COVER 來源：
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD 香港蘇富比2001年5月1日，編號611
exceptionally worked with an ovoid body rising from a 出版：
countersunk foot to a short waisted neck and flaring rim, 《清代玉雕藝術》，國立歷史博物館，台北，1996
the shoulder flanked by a pair of loop handles, each adorned 年，頁84-85
with a butterfly with outstretched wings and suspending
a loose ring, the exterior densely decorated with a melon
vine with plump lobed fruits growing from a trailing stem
amidst large palmate leaves, with butterflies hovering above
including two large ones plunging from the shoulder, the
cover surmounted by a large finial depicted in openwork with
a bud and surrounded by curling foliate edges, the lustrous
stone of an even white colour, wood stand
22.6 cm, 8⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1st May 2001, lot 611.
LITERATURE
The Jade-Carving Art in the Ch’ing Dynasty, National
Museum of History, Taipei, 1996, pp. 84-85.

HK$ 4,000,000-6,000,000
US$ 510,000-765,000

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