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L A C Q U E R • J A D E • B R O N Z E • I N K T H E R V I N G C O L L E C T I O N 髹金飾玉 - 歐雲伉儷珍藏

~ 806 AN IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE IMPERIALLY INSCRIBED
GREENISH-WHITE JADE “TWIN FISH” WASHER
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER
MARK AND OF THE PERIOD, DATED BY INSCRIPTION TO THE CYCLICAL
BINGWU YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1786 清乾隆 青白玉御題詩雙魚洗 《乾隆年製》四字隸書刻款

Finely carved with straight, faring sides encircled by three bow-string 來源
香港蘇富比，1979年11月28至29日，拍品405號。
bands, the interior carved in high relief with a pair of fsh, the base raised
Ashkenazie & Co.，舊金山，1982年。
on fve rectangular feet surrounding an incised imperial poem, Ti hetian
歐雲伉儷珍藏，編號392。
yu shuangyu xi (A Khotan Jade Twin Fish Washer), signed Qianlong yuti
(imperially composed by Qianlong), dated to autumn of bingwu year (1786), 著錄
followed by two seals reading guxi tianzi (Son of Heaven at Seventy) and 蘇富比，《香港蘇富比二十周年》，香港，1993年，頁295，編號514。
youri zizi (Still Diligent Every Day), all picked out in gilding, the stone of pale 蘇富比，《香港蘇富比三十周年》，香港，2003年，頁328，編號378。
greenish-white tone with subtle white fecks
10 in. (25.4 cm.) diam., hongmu stand
$1,000,000-1,500,000
PROVENANCE
Sotheby Parke Bernet, Hong Kong, 28-29 November 1979, lot 405.
Ashkenazie & Co., San Francisco, 1982.
The Irving Collection, no. 392.
LITERATURE
Sotheby’s, Sotheby’s Hong Kong - Twenty Years, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 295,
no. 514.
Sotheby’s, Thirty Years in Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2003, p. 328, no. 378.

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