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A rare white jade pouring vessel, yi 18th century, seal mark Daming Jiajing nian Zigang zhi (Made by Zigang during the Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty) image 1
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A rare white jade pouring vessel, yi
18th century, seal mark Daming Jiajing nian Zigang zhi (Made by Zigang during the Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty)

Fine Chinese Art
8 November 2012, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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A rare white jade pouring vessel, yi

18th century, seal mark Daming Jiajing nian Zigang zhi (Made by Zigang during the Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty)
The white stone of exceptional quality and expertly formed as a shallow pouring vessel, decorated on the exterior with one fully reticulated chilong with a twisted bifurcated tail coiled around the handle end to peer over the rim of the vessel beside an inscription, accompanied by another shallow-carved chilong emerging from foaming waves spreading out from the intricately-carved underside, the interior left smoothly polished.
12.8cm (5in) long

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Illustrated: Roger Keverne, ed., Jade, London, 1995, p.138, fig.26

十八世紀 白玉雕螭龍紋匜 「大明嘉靖年 子剛製」篆書刻款

著錄: Roger Keverne著, Jade, 倫敦, 1995年, 138頁, 圖26

The present lot is an excellent example of skilled carving complementing the exceptional quality of the pure white stone. The smoothly hollowed sides of the vessel allow the light to reveal the natural lustre of the jade, whilst the intricate wave details on the base and charming chilong are executed with the greatest precision, elegance and liveliness. It is therefore perhaps unsurprising that an inscription was added to reference Zigang, the renowned jade carver of the late Ming Dynasty.

A related yi of similar white jade and elegant form, from the Qing Court Collection, is illustrated in Classics of Forbidden City: Scholar's Paraphernalia, Beijing, 2009, pl.94.

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