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A MUGHAL PALE GREEN JADE EWER This elegant jade wine ewer is of a rare but 痕都斯坦即指蒙兀兒帝國（1526-1857）；
AND COVER known form. The Mughal Empire in India 1768年，乾隆皇帝親自撰《天竺五印度考
India, 18th century (1526-1857) left a legacy of high-quality worked 訛》一文，考證發音，定名「痕都斯坦」。
The pear-shaped body rising from a short foot, jades. The Qianlong emperor greatly admired 在蒙兀兒帝國治下，伊斯蘭玉器逐漸形成獨
carved in low relief with sprays of blossoming the so-called ‘Hindustan’ jades, and in 1768, 特的裝飾風格，並於十八世紀後期經新疆源
flowers surrounded by meandering leaf stems he wrote the Tianzhu wuyindu kaoe, a scholarly 源不斷貢入清廷，令乾隆皇帝讚歎不已。
beneath a band of pendent leaves, with text on the geography of Hindustan and the
similar designs repeated on the domed cover derivation of its name. The area he identified 早期的伊斯蘭玉器造形多受金屬器、瓷器影
surrounding a lotus-bud-shaped finial, the body was in what is today India, with the city of Agra 響，本例細流纖長筆挺的造型或源於金屬
with an integral straight spout. at its centre. During the eighteenth century, 器。器身的淺浮雕花葉紋，據說是受蒙兀兒
15cm (6in) long. this area was part of the Mughal Empire and 帝國皇帝賈漢吉1620年造訪鮮花盛開的克什
thus the jades from this region are today often 米爾峽谷後之啟發；以冷硬的玉料讚頌自然
£6,000 - 8,000 referred to as ‘Mughal’ jades. The decoration 界蓬勃的生機，是為痕玉之獨特風格。
CNY54,000 - 72,000 of the present vessel may have been inspired
by Emperor Jahangir’s visit to the beautiful 台北國立故宮博物院一例清宮舊藏十七至十
十八世紀 青白玉雕痕都斯坦式蓋壺 flower-filled valleys of Kashmir in 1620, which 八世紀蒙兀兒帝國玉單柄壺，紋飾相仿，
prompted the introduction of a new style of
見鄧淑蘋著，《國色天香：伊斯蘭玉器》，
drawing on botanical designs. Compare with 台北，2007年，圖版96。
Provenance: a related jade ewer, 17th/18th century, in the
An important European private collection collection of the National Palace Museum, 另對比一例印度十八世紀玉無柄壺，售於倫
Taipei, illustrated in Exquisite Beauty - Islamic 敦佳士得，2015年10月8日，拍品編號143。
來源： Jades, Taipei, 2007, pl.96.
歐洲重要私人收藏
A related white jade wine flask, India,
18th century, was sold at Christie’s London,
8 October 2015, lot 143.

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