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A TIANHUANG ‘BAMBOO SHOOT’ SEAL
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
naturalistically carved in the form of a tapering bamboo
shoot with a younger shoot beside, both formed from layers
of pointed leaves and issuing from a beaded base, the seal
face carved with two characters reading heng jun
h. 4.1 cm, 1⅝ in.; weight 17.66g
PROVENANCE
Collection of Hosokawa Morisada (1912-2005).
EXHIBITED
Hosokawa Morisada Collection ten I – Kougana bunjinno
sekai – Minshinno kaiga to shoseki, bunbougu [Morisada
Hosokawa Collection exhibition I – The World of an refined
writer – Paintings, calligraphy and stationery in Ming and
Qing Dynasty], Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art,
Kumamoto, 1992, cat. no. 78.

LITERATURE
Morisada Hosokawa, Ittokuroku [Wisdom in pieces], Tokyo,
1982, nos 16-I-III.

HK$ 150,000-200,000
US$ 19,200-25,500
Seal face
清十八世紀 田黃雕竹筍印章
印文：恆君

來源：
細川護貞（1912-2005年）收藏
展覽：
《細川護貞コレクション展 I：高雅な文人の世界―
明清の絵画と書跡．文房具》，熊本縣立美術館，熊
本市，1992年，編號78
出版：
細川護貞，《一得録》，東京，1982年，編號16-I-III

3729

PROPERTY OF A LADY
A WHITE JADE ‘FISH’ INK PALETTE
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
of square form, the straight sides raised on four low feet at
the corners, worked in high relief to the interior with a fish
swimming diagonally, it pointed head and furled tail curled
gently upwards, the base with a square seal reading yongbao
(To be treasured eternally), the translucent stone of an even
white tone
5.4 cm, 2⅛ in.
HK$ 150,000-250,000
US$ 19,200-31,900

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