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AN IMPERIAL, HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND 清乾隆 和闐青白玉獸首銜環鳧魚壺
MAGNIFICENT KHOTAN-GREEN JADE 《乾隆仿古》款
ARCHAISTIC VASE
來源：
FANGGU MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
埃斯卡納齊，倫敦及米蘭，約1960-1961年
the massive, highly esteemed celadon-green boulder carefully Spink & Son Ltd，倫敦
chosen for its resemblance to the patination on archaic
倫敦蘇富比1961年11月21日，編號164（封面內頁），指
bronzes, robustly worked and well-hollowed modelling on the
archaic hu form, the perfectly proportioned pear-shaped body 由 Marshall 購入貴族收藏
rising from a splayed foot to a wide, gently waisted cylindrical 倫敦佳士得1987年12月16日，編號472
neck, flanked by a pair of hefty lion-mask handles, each mask Spink & Son Ltd，倫敦，1989年
powerfully detailed with flaring nostrils and large bulging eyes Somerset de Chair（1911-1995年）收藏
beneath heavy brows, their mouths opening to issue a thick
hoop suspending loose rings hollowed from the same boulder, 香港邦瀚斯2014年11月27日，編號13
the lower body similarly set on the front with a further mask
出版：
handle with loose ring, deftly carved in low relief around the
body with two horizontal bands each enclosing water fowls 《Oriental Art Magazine》，1962年夏，頁88-89，圖7
and creatures arranged in double registers, including birds, Geoffrey Wills，《Jade of the East》，紐約，1972年，頁
water snakes, fish and tortoise, all divided by wide, punctilious 93、116-117
concave fillet bands, below another band finely incised with 朱塞佩．埃斯卡納齊，薛好佩整理，《中國藝術品經眼
swirling whorls, the neck encircled by archaistic kui dragon
scrolls below a band of S-scrolls separated by slenderer 錄：埃斯卡納齊的回憶》，倫敦，2012年；中譯版，上
fillets, skirted around the foot with a plaited ropetwist band, 海，2015年，圖版157
the base lightly incised with a four-character mark reading
Qianlong fanggu, the stone of an even celadon-green tone
characteristically suffused with rustic milky-brown veining and
light mottling concentrating on one side of the vase
41.5 cm, 16⅜ in.
PROVENANCE
Eskenazi Ltd, London and Milan, c.1960-1961.
Spink & Son Ltd, London.
Sotheby’s London, 21st November 1961, lot 164 (frontpiece
illustration), where it is noted it was acquired by Marshall.
Christie’s London, 16th December 1987, lot 472.
Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1989.
Collection of Somerset de Chair (1911-1995).
Bonhams Hong Kong, 27th November 2014, lot 13.

LITERATURE
Oriental Art Magazine, Summer 1962, pp. 88-89, fig.7.
Geoffrey Wills, Jade of the East, New York, 1972, pp. 93, 116-
117.
Giuseppe Eskenazi in collaboration with Hajni Elias, A Dealer’s
Hand: The Chinese Art World Through the Eyes of Giuseppe
Eskenazi, London, 2012; Chinese version Shanghai, 2015, pl.
157.
HK$ 18,000,000-24,000,000
US$ 2,310,000-3,070,000

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