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Lot 51

A magnificent very pale green jade 'marriage' bowl
Qianlong

Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
4 June 2015, 10:30 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific Place

HK$1,500,000 - HK$1,800,000

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A magnificent very pale green jade 'marriage' bowl

Qianlong
The smooth, softly polished sides finely hollowed from a very pale green stone and raised on four low feet curved to follow the shape of the bowl, the two opposing handles each formed as a butterfly spreading its delicate wings to each side and the long antennae looping towards the wing tips, each butterfly supported on a handle suspending a loose ring, the interior crisply carved in relief with two opening blossoms and a bud amongst intertwined serrated foliage, wood stand.
21.5cm (8 1/2in) wide (2).

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清乾隆 青白玉雕花卉紋雙蝶耳活環洗

Provenance 來源：
Acquired from John Sparks Ltd., London, on 29 November 1954
A European private collection and thence by descent

1954年11月29日購自倫敦古董商John Sparks
歐洲私人收藏，並由家族成員繼承

The present lot is an exemplary piece of Qianlong period jade carving in its varied styles: the crisp, tautly curled carving on the interior contrasts with the open simplicity of the butterflies and the softly polished smooth exterior.

Finely carved jade bowls such as the present lot were often decorated with auspicious motifs such as bats and butterflies to form the handles, or a pair of fish on the interior, making them a most suitable gift for happy occasions such as a marriage. The pair of butterfly handles on the present lot symbolises joyful encounter, xi xiang feng 喜相逢, and by extension marital happiness; with the pair of delicate insects embodying the union of husband and wife.

A number of similarly fine jade bowls are preserved in museum and private collections. For a related example of the use of butterfly handles, see a white jade censer and cover with four butterfly handles suspending loose rings, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Jadeware (II), Shanghai, 2008, pl.27; see also a jade bowl with closely related butterfly handles but fish carved on the interior, illustrated by P.F.Schneeburger, The Baur Collection, Geneva, 1976, no.B11; another also with butterfly handles but with the Three Auspicious Fruits in the well is illustrated by R.Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no.88 and sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 November 2007, lot 1503.

青白玉質。圓身，敞口，淺腹。洗兩側雕蝴蝶形耳並套活環，腹壁內外光素，洗底內部凸雕纏枝牡丹。底部有四矮足。

此玉洗雕工嫻熟，內底凸雕與腹部光素形成對比更顯雍容雅緻。類似例子可在博物館及私人收藏中所見，北京故宮博物院舊藏一件青玉四蝶耳活環奁，其蝶形耳與本拍品類似，見《故宮博物院藏文物珍品大集：玉器（下）》，上海，2008年，圖版27。另見鮑氏收藏一件蝴蝶耳活環洗，著錄與P.F.Schneeburger，《The Baur Collection》，日內瓦，1976年，編號B11，另見一件玉雕三多紋雙碟耳活環洗，著錄於R. Kleiner，《Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman》，香港，1996年，編號88，後由香港佳士得售出，2007年11月27日，編號1503。

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