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A spinach-green jade incense burner and cover, gui 18th/19th century
4 June 2015, 10:30 HKT
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A spinach-green jade incense burner and cover, gui
18th/19th century
The deep rounded body raised on a spreading foot, with a pair of archaic mythical beast mask handles on each side, intricately carved in shallow relief with taotie masks amidst ruyi scrolls, and six evenly-spaced short vertical flanges below the mouth rim, the domed cover with a further band of taotie masks and surmounted by a pierced coiling chi dragon, wood stand.
16.4cm (6 1/2in) wide (3).
The deep rounded body raised on a spreading foot, with a pair of archaic mythical beast mask handles on each side, intricately carved in shallow relief with taotie masks amidst ruyi scrolls, and six evenly-spaced short vertical flanges below the mouth rim, the domed cover with a further band of taotie masks and surmounted by a pierced coiling chi dragon, wood stand.
16.4cm (6 1/2in) wide (3).
Footnotes
十八/十九世紀 碧玉雕仿古饕餮紋簋式蓋爐
Provenance 來源:
Acquired prior to 29 November 1984 (date of Spink & Son Ltd., London valuation)
An English private collection and thence by descent
於1984年11月29日前購得（此為倫敦古董商Spink & Son Ltd.為其所做估價的日期）
英國私人收藏，並由家族繼承
The archaistic design on the present lot of taotie masks, flanges and mythical beast handles, is consistent with the Qianlong emperor's fascination with archaic and ancient objects, which subsequently influenced jade craftsmanship. Chang Li-tuan notes in The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch'ing Court, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1997, p.49 that the Qianlong emperor proposed to 'restore ancient ways', suggesting that jade carvers turn to antiquity for models, which would enable them to imbue their designs with simplicity and honesty, and so achieve refinement and elegance. The 'ancient ways' referred to the intrinsic values of sincerity, simplicity, and happy exuberance.
Compare a related spinach-green jade incense burner and cover, Qianlong mark and of the period, from the Qing Court Collection, with related 'square' shaped handles, but with a flaring finial on the cover and lower foot, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (II), Shanghai, 2008, pl.106.
乾隆帝好古敏求，崇尚慕古之風，提倡復古主義，認為古典器物樸素、精純、高雅、有意涵，詳閱張麗瑞著《宮廷之雅：清代仿古及畫意玉器特展圖錄》，台北，1997年，頁49。清宮舊藏一乾隆帶款例子，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系：玉器（II）》，上海，2008年，圖版106。