Bonhams 1793 : A spinach-green jade 'arrow' vase, hu 18th century

18th century
Smoothly and simplistically carved as a vessel of flattened hu form supported on a spreading foot with the neck flanked by a pair of tubular handles, the stone of spinach-green tone, wood stand.
23.5cm (9¼in) high (2).

Estimate:

£20,000 - 30,000
HK$ 240,000 - 350,000
CNY 190,000 - 280,000

Footnotes

Provenance: Jade House, Hong Kong, purchased on 30 January 1963
A Canadian private collection

Exhibited: Royal Ontario Museum, Prized Possessions from Private Homes: An Exhibition, Toronto, 8 October - 8 December, 1968, no.1168

十八世紀碧玉雕貫耳壺

來源: 於1963年1月30日購自香港Jade House
加拿大私人收藏

展覽: 於1968年10月8日至12月8日皇家安大略博物館Prized Possessions from Private Homes: An Exhibition展出，並著錄於圖錄編號1168

The form of the 'arrow' vase is derived from the archaic hu vases of the Shang Dynasty. For a related jade 'arrow' vase from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated together with a Shang Dynasty bronze hu vase to show the similarities, see The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch'ing Court, Taipei, 1997, no.1. The present lot is left uncarved, thus highlighting the quality of the unadorned stone.