Gigi Yu
Head of Department
Lot 317
A SMALL PALE GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE, A CIRCULAR PALE GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC BOX AND COVER
Qing Dynasty
29 May 2023, 13:00 HKT
Hong Kong, AdmiraltyHK$80,000 - HK$100,000
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Tracy Hui
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A SMALL PALE GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC VASE, A CIRCULAR PALE GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC BOX AND COVER
Qing Dynasty
The flattened baluster body of the vase rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck flanked by a pair of kuilong handles, the body carved in low relief on each side with a taotie mask between bands of upright and pendent lappets, the smoothly polished stone of an even colour with some snow flake inclusions; the domed cover of the box carved with a central stylised dragon medallion enclosed by another band of stylised dragon in a different style, similarly decorated on the box rising from a short foot, box.
Vase: 13cm (5 1/8in) high; box: 7cm (2 3/4in) diam.
The flattened baluster body of the vase rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck flanked by a pair of kuilong handles, the body carved in low relief on each side with a taotie mask between bands of upright and pendent lappets, the smoothly polished stone of an even colour with some snow flake inclusions; the domed cover of the box carved with a central stylised dragon medallion enclosed by another band of stylised dragon in a different style, similarly decorated on the box rising from a short foot, box.
Vase: 13cm (5 1/8in) high; box: 7cm (2 3/4in) diam.
Footnotes
清 青白玉雕饕餮紋龍耳小瓶及青白玉雕變體龍紋小盒 一組兩件
See a complete set of spinach-green jade incense garniture example in the current sale, lot 315, 18th century. Compare to the archaistic dragon patterns on the vase, box and cover in a set of white jade incense garniture set in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 10 Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2011, p.154, pl.112.
十八世紀爐瓶盒的碧玉例見本場拍品315，另北京故宮博物院藏一套清代白玉爐瓶盒三式，其仿古龍紋飾與本拍品類近，可資參考，收錄在《故宮博物院藏品大系：玉器編10－清》，北京，2011年，頁154，圖版112。