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THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
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AN IMPORTANT IMPERIAL INSCRIBED SPINACH-
GREEN JADE RETICULATED BRUSH POT
QIANLONG PERIOD, INSCRIBED WITH A CYCLICAL DATE YIMAO,
CORRESPONDING TO 1795 AND OF THE PERIOD
The brush pot is of cylindrical form and stands on three ruyi-
shaped feet. It is masterfully pierced and carved on the exterior
with a continuous scene depicting an elderly man walking below a
pavilion and holding a long gnarled staff, accompanied by a young
attendant carrying a qin in a cloth pouch; the reverse is carved with
another boy carrying firewood on his shoulders, walking towards
a building within a balustraded garden, below a four-character
inscription ‘fantong xianlü’. The rim of the brush pot is further
inscribed with an Imperial poem, the cyclical date, followed by a
seal ‘bi de’ in seal script. The well-polished stone has a deep spinach
green tone mottled with lighter and darker inclusions.
12.5 cm. (5 in.) high
HK$4,000,000-6,000,000 US$520,000-770,000
PROVENANCE
Sold at Sotheby's London, 28 October 1988, lot 306
Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 31 October 2004, lot 229
detail
清乾隆乙卯年（1795） 御用題詩碧玉「樊桐仙侶」筆筒 細部
銘文： 樊桐崑嶠原一脈，流入和闐產玉精，試問相咨定誰氏，
西梁北谷述仙情。 乾隆乙卯夏御題
鈐印：比德

來源
倫敦蘇富比，1988 年 10 月 28 日，拍品 306 號
香港蘇富比，2004 年 10 月 31 日，拍品 229 號

Complete Compilation of Poems and compositions by the Gaozong
Emperor, vol. V, juan 98-9
《清高宗御製詩文全集》，第五集，卷九十八之九

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