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The powerful five-clawed front-facing leaping dragon strongly rendered 瑞士鮑爾基金會收藏一件清乾隆碧玉雕雲龍紋蓋瓶，尺寸稍大
in the present lot is one of the most symbolic representations of （41CM），其器型及紋飾設計與本拍品幾乎一致，見P. Schneeberger
Imperial authority. This design appears to be inspired by the ‘dragon’ 著錄《The Baur Collection, Geneva: Chinese Jades and Other
moonflasks produced at the Imperial kiln at Jingdezhen during the Hardstones》，日內瓦，1976年，編號B91。另見北京故宮博物院藏清乾
Qianlong period and is relatively rarely found on Imperial jade carvings. 隆白玉纏蓮紋雙耳瓶，其瓶蓋及瓶身形製與本拍品都非常相似，但瓶
身刻纏枝蓮紋，著錄於楊伯達，《中國玉器全集（中）》，河北，2005年，
See a larger but closely related spinach-green jade vase and cover 編號211。
(41cm high), Qianlong period, with a very similar form and decoration
in the Baur Collection, illustrated by P. Schneeberger, The Baur 同樣雕刻有五爪雲龍紋但器型稍有不同的宮廷玉蓋瓶，見美國大
Collection, Geneva: Chinese Jades and Other Hardstones, Geneva, 都會藝術博物館藏一件白玉雕雲龍紋雙耳瓶，著錄於《The Heber
1976, no.B91. Compare also a white jade vase with a similar form R. Bishop Collection of Jade and other Hard Stones》，第十冊，紐
and a similar cover but carved with lotus flowers, Qianlong mark 約，1909年，頁62。另見天津博物館藏一件清乾隆雲龍紋獸耳蓋玉扁
and period, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Yang Boda, 瓶，著錄於《天津博物館藏玉》，北京，2012年，編號186。另見英國渣
zhongguo yuqi quanji: 2, Hebei, 2005, no.211. 甸爵士舊藏一件清乾隆御製白玉雕穿花八吉祥盤龍紋雙獸活環耳蓋
瓶，後售於香港佳士得，2011年11月30日，拍品編號2971。
For other related jade vases of slightly different forms but also
decorated with full-faced leaping dragons, see an example in the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated in H. R. Bishop, The Heber R.
Bishop Collection of Jade and other Hard Stones. Handbook no.10.
New York, 1909, p.62; and another jade vase and cover with handles
suspending loose rings in the Tianjin Museum, illustrated in Jade
Wares Collected by Tianjin Museum, Beijing, 2012, no.186. A third
example previously in the collection of Sir John Buchanan Jardine. Bt.,
was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2011, lot 2971.

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