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PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTOR 清乾隆 白玉雕鴛鴦銜蓮鎮紙
A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE ARCHAISTIC 來源：
‘DUCK’ PAPERWEIGHT
香港蘇富比1988年11月17日，編號480
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD
瑪麗與莊智博收藏
of flattened form, finely worked to depict a stylised bird, 香港蘇富比2005年10月23日，編號60
possibly a mandarin duck, grasping in its beak a long curling 莫士撝，香港
leafy lotus stem, the bird portrayed flanked by a pair of wings
detailed with ruffled plumage picked out with archaistic 出版：
scrolling motifs, the underside revealing its webbed feet
《Franzart. Chinese Art from the Hedda and Lutz Franz
rendered in low relief, the stone of an even white colour with
attractive russet patches Collection. Vol. I, Stone》，香港，2010年，頁230
9.5 cm, 3¾ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 17th November 1988, lot 480.
Collection of Mary and George Bloch.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 23rd October 2005, lot 60.
Hugh Moss (HK) Ltd, Hong Kong
LITERATURE
Franzart. Chinese Art from the Hedda and Lutz Franz
Collection. Vol. I, Stone, Hong Kong, 2010, p. 230.
HK$ 600,000-800,000
US$ 77,000-103,000
A similar jade carving of an archaistic duck from the personal
collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, sold at Christie’s Hong
Kong, 27th November 2007, lot 1563, is illustrated in Robert
Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone
Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, cat.no. 198, where it is noted that
the combination of an archaic bronze form and the naturalistic
quality of the floral spray was a popular decorative device
employed during the eighteenth century.

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