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A SUPERB AND FINELY CARVED WHITE 清乾隆 白玉雕洗硯圖筆筒
JADE ‘XIYAN TU’ BRUSHPOT
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD 來源：
Michael Roger Williams 醫生（1921-96年）收藏，英國
the cylindrical body rising from five short ruyi feet to a slightly 坎特伯雷，由其病人於1970年代餽贈，此後家族傳承
flaring rim, finely carved in varying levels of relief around the
exterior with a scholar seated at his pavilion in a rocky river
landscape, looking out at his attendant crouching by the river
washing an inkstone, the stone of a very pale celadon-white
colour with some pale caramel inclusions
d. 13 cm, 5⅛ in.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Dr Michael Roger Williams (1921-96), Canterbury,
England, gifted by a patient whose life he saved in the 1970s,
and thence by descent.
HK$ 2,000,000-3,000,000
US$ 258,000-387,000
188 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比
