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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A GREEN JADE AND JICHIMU
HATSTAND WITH IMPERIAL
POEMS
QING DYNASTY
carved with a domed hat rest with a pair of
ferocious dragons in relief on a ground of swirling
clouds, circling a central medallion with the
characters Qianlong yuyong (‘for the imperial use
of the Qianlong Emperor’), raised on a slender
jichimu shaft incised with two imperial poems
picked-out with gold, inscribed with the year
dingwei, all supported on a thick circular jade
base further decorated with dragons and clouds,
the stone of greyish-celadon tone with natural
veining
29 cm, 11½ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s New York, 26th February 1982, lot 472.
HK$ 200,000-300,000
US$ 25,600-38,400
See a pair of similar jade hatstands of this
design and proportions, but with silver-inlaid
inscription and a jade inlaid wood base, in the
Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The
Palace Museum Collection of Elite Carvings,
Beijing, 2002, pl. 85, and photographed in situ
in the Sanxitang (Room of Three Rarities) in
the Forbidden City, published in the exhibition
catalogue Imperial China. The Living Past, Art
Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1992, p.
107; and another example in the British Museum,
London, included in the Oriental Ceramics Society
exhibition Chinese Jade throughout the Ages,
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1975, cat.
no. 463. A similar Qing dynasty hatstand was sold
in our New York rooms, 3rd June 1987, lot 292
and again in these rooms, 5th October 2011, lot
2166. For a hatstand of this form but with a plain
hardwood shaft and base, see one published in
Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection
of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996,
pl. 51, and sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27th
November 2007, lot 1536.
清 青玉雕雲龍紋嵌鸂鶒木描金御製詩冠架
來源:
紐約蘇富比1982年2月26日,編號472
264 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比