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A RARE AND FINELY CARVED YELLOW JADE The lustrous yellow colour seen on the current jade vase is referred
to as the colour of mallow flowers in the autumn season, qiukui, by
TWIN-HANDLED VASE Chinese connoisseurs. An example of an ‘autumn mallow’-coloured
jade carving is provided by the finger citron dated to the Qing Dynasty
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795) in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Jade (III), The Complete
Collection of Treasures from the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995,
The square-sectioned vessel is well-hollowed and elegantly carved p. 64, no. 52.
with archaistic handles shaped as phoenixes to the sides of the
slightly waisted neck, above a stepped shoulder and raised on a Compare the archaistic phoenix handles on the present lot to the
spreading foot. The stone is of an attractive yellowish-green tone archaistic dragon handles on an agate vase in the Palace Museum,
with some minor darker and lighter inclusions. Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji - 6 - Qing, Hebei, 1991, p.
5 æ in. (14.6 cm.) high 148, no. 225. Also see a yellow jade vase from the G. Bloch Collection,
sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 23 October 2005, lot 73; and another at
HK$800,000-1,200,000 US$110,000-160,000 Sotheby’s New York, 19 March 2007, lot 30.

PROVENANCE 清乾隆 黃玉雙龍耳方瓶

Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 17 May 1988, lot 555 來源
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 April 1996, lot 693 香港佳士得，1988 年 5 月 17 日，拍品 555 號
Sold at Christie’s London, 15 May 2007, lot 374 香港佳士得，1996 年 4 月 28 日，拍品 693 號
倫敦佳士得，2007 年 5 月 15 日，拍品 374 號

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