Bonhams 1793 : A rare square jade 'landscape' box and cover Ming dynasty, signed Jianghe Shanren

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24 Nov 2012 15:00 CST Hong Kong
A Private North American Collection of Scholar's Objects
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A rare square jade 'landscape' box and cover

Ming dynasty, signed Jianghe Shanren
The base rising from from a short recessed feet, the curved body with straight sides surmounted by a gently domed fitted cover, the surface worked to a scene of a fisherman on a sampan by a small pavilion amongst watery landscape of lush growth and distant mountains, the rims framed by two keyfret borders, the base with four-character zhuanshu seal mark.
6.8cm diam. (2).

Sold for HK$ 131,250 inc. premium

Footnotes

For a closely related example in terms of form and decoration on the cover, but with 'Zigang' signature at the base, see Yang Boda and Wan-go Weng, The Palace Museum, Peking: Treasures of the Forbidden City, London, 1982, p.263, pl.163.

明玉雕山水圖蓋盒「江河山人」篆書款

青白玉間有淺褐斑，玉質天然紋理清晰。蓋盒呈方形，蓋、底均向外弧凸，方圈足。蓋面淺浮雕山水圖，空凸雕一圓形「日」字，象徵白天，石塊疊成遠山，一岸上有小亭，一岸上有松樹兩棵，河上有小漁船一瓢，上有人物垂釣，雕工簡潔，構圖謹嚴，山石樹人造型形式化，甚有玩味。蓋盒口沿飾回紋一周，底有「江河山人」篆書款。

相類似的「子岡」款玉山水圖蓋盒例子，可參北京故宮博物院之藏品，見楊伯達，翁萬戈合著，《古代中國美術品的寶庫．北京故宮博物院藏品選》，倫敦，1982，頁263，圖版163。該盒形式與本拍品相近，蓋上雕刻也較為簡潔，唯上有詩句及盒身四面有花卉雕刻。

Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art

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