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A WHITE JADE ‘DOUBLE DUCK’ BELT HOOK AN INSCRIBED WHITE JADE ‘HORSE’ 清乾隆 白玉雕駿馬詩文珮
AND LOOP, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD PENDANT, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD 來源
Height 2¼ in., 5.7 cm
(2) 私人收藏，得於香港，1991年
Width overall 4¼ in., 10.8 cm PROVENANCE 展覽
PROVENANCE Private Collection, acquired in Hong Kong, 1991. 《Ninety Jades for 90 Years》，馬錢特，倫敦，2015
Collection of Philip Wood (1938-2010). 年，編號38
EXHIBITED

LITERATURE Ninety Jades for 90 Years, Marchant, London, November
2015, cat. no. 38.
Fang Jing Pei, Symbols and Rebuses in Chinese Art, Berkeley,
2004, p. 65. Finely carved with an elysian composition and accompanying
verse in pure white jade, the present pendant shares many
⊖ $ 10,000-15,000
features with the famed eighteenth century Suzhou School
of hardstone carving and, in particular, the fabled workshop
清乾隆 白玉雕交頸雙鴨式帶扣 of Lu Zigang.
Compare a related pendant of this form decorated with a
來源 standing lady, also bearing an inscription, from the collection
Philip Wood (1938-2010) 收藏 of Victor Shaw, illustrated in Chinese Jades from Han to
文獻 Ch’ing, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1980, cat. no. 219;
397 another of this form, with a lady weaving beside a window
Fang Jing Pei，《Symbols and Rebuses in Chinese Art》
，伯克利，2004年，頁65 and children playing in an exterior garden, again with a
relief inscription, illustrated in Xue Guisheng, Zhongguo

yuqi shangjian [An appreciation and examination of Chinese
jades], Shanghai, 2000, pl. 274; and a further pendant,
carved with scholar Wang Xizhi pointing at two geese and
the reverse with Zhang Liang, bearing a Zigang seal mark,
included by Marchant in their 70th Anniversary Exhibition of
Post-Archaic Chinese Jades, London, 1995, cat. no. 64.
398 ⊖ $ 30,000-50,000
A RARE ARCHAISTIC WHITE JADE BELT
BUCKLE, YUAN - MING DYNASTY
Width 3⅜ in., 8.6 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of the Honourable Judge Edgar Bromberger
(1889-1956).
EXHIBITED
Ninety Jades for 90 Years, Marchant, London, 2015,
cat. no. 25.
Judge Edgar Bromberger (1889-1956) spent his life in service
of the city of New York, eventually serving as the City’s chief
magistrate from 1945 to 1950. Amassing a remarkable
collection of Chinese art, he opted to bequeath a number of
his most important pieces to the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, including a large Yuan dynasty porcelain bodhisattva
(accession no. xxx), in memory of his late mother Augusta.

⊖ $ 10,000-15,000

元至明 白玉透雕仿古紋帶扣
來源
398
Edgar Bromberger 法官 (1889-1956) 收藏
展覽
《Ninety Jades for 90 Years》，馬錢特，倫敦，2015
年，編號25

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