Bonhams 1793 : A white jade 'deer and crane' vase and cover

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24 Nov 2012 14:00 CST Hong Kong
Timeless and Translucent: The Harold E. Stack Collection of Chinese Jades
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A white jade 'deer and crane' vase and cover

Of archaistic hu form, the elegantly shaped vessel supported on a splayed foot, the compressed body rising to a curved neck terminating with a lipped rim, exquisitely worked on one side with a buck and doe under a tree amongst rockwork, the reverse with a riverscape scene of a crane standing on one leg on a rock and the other perched on a pine tree, the neck flanked by a pair of mythical beast head handles suspending loose rings, all surmounted by a domed cover topped with an oval knop with enclosed wan character above a band of ruyi-heads, the clear stone of an icy white colour.
25.8cm high. (2).

Sold for HK$ 1,340,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

Provenance 來源:
S. Bernstein & Co., San Francisco, 19 February 2001

For a similar white vase from the Lawrence Chan collection , see The Grandeur of Chinese Art Treasures: Min Chiu Society Golden Jubilee Exhibition, Hong Kong, 2010, p.360, no.214.

白玉鶴鹿同春圖獸耳活環蓋瓶

玉質白色，潔淨無瑕，溫潤滋肥，猶如凝脂。瓶橢圓形口，直頸，圓鼓扁身，橢圓形圈足。瓶身兩面各雕圓形開光，一面開光內飾仙鶴，另一面則飾梅花鹿，平底近足處雕花草壽石，一蒼松與一椿樹分別從瓶身兩側蜿蜒升起，其松針及枝葉蔓延至瓶頸，具有「鶴鹿同春」的吉祥寓意。

與本瓶極為相似的另一件玉瓶，參看香港敏求精舍陳永達收藏一件清乾隆白玉鶴鹿同春圖活環蓋瓶，並曾於香港藝術館展覽，見香港藝術館編，《博古存珍：敏求精舍金禧年紀念展》，香港，2010年，頁360，編號214，其紋飾以及形制與本該瓶基本一致。

Category: Asian Art

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