Footnotes

• Provenance 來源:
  Robyn Turner Gallery, San Francisco
  
  Exhibited 展覽:
  East Meets West, Orientations, Hong Kong, 1998, cat.no.12, pp.20-21
  
  Edward I. Farmer (1872-1942) was a well-known art dealer in New York City with over twenty-nine years of experience in the field. His galleries at 5 West Fifty-Sixth Street and 16 East Fifty-Sixth Street offered a wide variety of Chinese works of art as well as European antiques. With an interest and flair for both Eastern and Western antiques, he is remembered best as the foremost expert in mounting fine Chinese porcelains and jades into decorative lamps and desk accessories, as highlighted by the current lot.
  
  The breadth of his collecting can be gauged by the three-day sale of the contents of his gallery that took place in 16-19 April and 3-4 December 1947 at Parke Bernet Galleries. Although the current lot was not illustrated in those sales catalogues, a similar sterling silver box, with key-fret border trim surrounding applied Late Ming jade belt plaques, was also included in the same exhibition and catalogue (cat.no.6, pp.12-13). A jade-mounted gold jewel box from the Farmer studios was also sold at Sotheby's New York, 23 March 2004, lot 522.
  
  Belt plaques carefully reticulated of white jade with dragon decoration are of a well-known type from the Ming dynasty. Sets of jade plaques dating to the Ming dynasty are illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, Vol.5 Sui-Ming, 2005, p.503, no.250 (complete belt set with figures) and p.504, nos.251-253 (individual dragon plaques).
  
  二十世紀初 純銀鑲明代白玉鏤雕帶飾方盒
  
  銀盒： 「Edward I. Farmer, New York」款

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Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art

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