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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN COLLECTION
清乾隆 御題和闐白玉盌
A SUPERB IMPERIALLY 《乾隆乙酉季夏月》

INSCRIBED WHITE KHOTAN 《乾隆年製》款
JADE BOWL 「比德」、「朗潤」印

MARK AND PERIOD OF 來源：
QIANLONG, DATED YIYOU 依莉莎白．派克．費爾斯通
（Elizabeth Parke Firestone，1897-1990年）收藏
YEAR (IN ACCORDANCE WITH 紐約佳士得1991年3月22日，編號532
香港蘇富比2003年10月26日，編號33
1765)
刻文：
exceptionally worked with deep rounded sides rising from 和闐包貢歲頻來，希致如脂中盌材。
a straight foot to an everted rim, the exterior inscribed with 成器明庭襄大典，掞毫麗句泐奇瑰。
an imperial poem titled Yong Hetian yu wan (‘In Praise of
a Khotan Jade Bowl’) extolling the flawlessness and rarity 無纖瑕亦瑜無揜，有足受斯量有恢。
of the bowl, dated to the yiyou year of the Qianlong reign 奕葉子孫永保用，赤刀弘璧等珍推。
(in accordance with 1765) and followed by two seal marks
reading bide (‘compare yourself to jade’) and langrun (‘bright
and lustrous’), the base incised with a four-character reign
mark, the softly polished translucent stone of a lustrous even
white colour
12.7 cm, 5 in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Elizabeth Parke Firestone (1897-1990).
Christie’s New York, 22nd March 1991, lot 532.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 26th October 2003, lot 33.

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

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