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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


















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