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PROPERTY FROM A MIDWEST COLLECTION PROVENANCE
Collection of Mrs. F. Clore Davis, London (by repute).
AN INSCRIBED WHITE JADE MOON FLASK G. Malina Inc., New York, 1982.
AND COVER
QING DYNASTY The poem inscribed on this ask was composed by the Yuan
dynasty connoisseur Zhao Yan (active during the rst half of
of compressed rounded form supported by a splayed the Yuan dynasty), who inspected paintings for the court and
rectangular foot and rising to a squared neck anked by was commissioned by the Mongol Princess Da Cheng (c. 1283-
archaistic kuilong-mask handles suspending loose rings and 1331) to inscribe colophons and compose poetry for vetted
surmounted by a stepped cover with faceted knop, one side of works in the imperial collection. The original calligraphic poem
the body more rounded in pro le and relief carved with a scene is now in the Taipei National Palace Museum collection.
of a lone boat sailing towards a house raised up on a craggy
shore, the reverse inscribed with a Yuan dynasty poem, the $ 60,000-80,000
sides and neck further carved as if bound and knotted in rope,
incised with an apocryphal four-character Qianlong seal mark 㶭ġġġ䘥䌱晽㜿暚㘜ⶮ⚾娑㔯漵俛㳣䑘味䒞
within a square, the stone with faint russet inclusions, tted ˪Ḧ昮⸜墥˫ầ㫦
wood stand (3)
Height 5½ in., 14 cm 娑㔯烉
ᶨ䇯㘜ⶮ㫚㉪⣑ġ㜿暚㰇㚰㶐⧇⧇
廆ⶅṢ⍣ᷡ曺⛐ġ㘾忤㫡㷾㜦㴒䄁

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