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PROPERTY FROM THE SPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS, SOLD TO SUPPORT ART PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE WEST COAST COLLECTION
ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTIONS CARE
1245
~1244
A GREEN AND BROWN JADE FIGURE OF A RECUMBENT
A WHITE JADE CARVING OF A PHOENIX The auspicious phoenix (fenghuang), chief among birds, also symbolizes the BUFFALO
18TH CENTURY empress. It is shown here grasping a blossoming peony stem, an omen of 17TH-18TH CENTURY
good fortune and an emblem of feminine beauty.
10q in. (26.7 cm.) long, hardwood stand 7 in. (17.8 cm.) long
Another large white-jade carving of a recumbent phoenix, shown grasping a
$50,000-70,000 peach spray in its beak and bearing a Qianlong reign mark, is illustrated by $60,000-80,000
R. Kleiner in Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman,
PROVENANCE:
Hong Kong, 1996, p. 252, no. 201. The stylization of the tail feathers of the
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts, 美४西岸私́珍藏
Hartman example is similar to the present figure, and the author notes, p.
acquired prior to 1910.
252, that this treatment is typical of the late Qianlong period, and the “very 十ˑ 十Ջˠ紀ǎ青褐玉雕臥Ḫ擺件
large size of the piece is commensurate with increased supplies of jade
available after 1760.”

斯普菲博ḵ館珍藏
拍賣收益將用於藏品㈂藏及維ㄼ
清十Ջˠ紀ǎ白玉雕鳳鳥擺件
Ϝ源
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