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A white jade square bowl and cover Qianlong
24 November 2012, 14:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Island Shangri-La HotelSold for HK$2,660,000 inc. premium
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A white jade square bowl and cover
Qianlong
Of archaistic form, the exquisitely worked body of square form, supported on a hollowed splayed foot, worked in high relief on on all four vertical sides with an archaistic taotie mask issuing forth a ring handle, two with stylised gaping jaws, and two with jaws closed, the mask resembling a butterfly, all above a band of lappets at the foot, the cover of domed sectionrising to a trumpet-shaped knop, finely worked with classic scrolls and upward and downward lotus lappets, the white stone with attractive russet patches.
11.7cm high. (2).
Of archaistic form, the exquisitely worked body of square form, supported on a hollowed splayed foot, worked in high relief on on all four vertical sides with an archaistic taotie mask issuing forth a ring handle, two with stylised gaping jaws, and two with jaws closed, the mask resembling a butterfly, all above a band of lappets at the foot, the cover of domed sectionrising to a trumpet-shaped knop, finely worked with classic scrolls and upward and downward lotus lappets, the white stone with attractive russet patches.
11.7cm high. (2).
Footnotes
Provenance 來源:
The Crane Gallery Inc., Seattle, 4 December 1981
清乾隆 白玉蝶耳四方蓋盌
白玉，玉質肥潤，局部留皮。器方身，下身收斂，方形圈足，斜方形蓮瓣紋蓋，蓋與盌菱角處飾仿古饕餮紋，瓶身四面各雕一蝴蝶耳，近足處飾變形蓮瓣紋，盌內素面無紋。此方蓋盌玉質上乘，沁色自然，做工醇厚古樸，而四方形盌在清宮玉器中較為少見，其器形摹古創新，卻嚴謹歸正，樸拙唯美。