松山荡舟青白玉爵杯

Description

松山荡舟青白玉爵杯

参考：Property of a Lady 女史珍藏
1099
A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ‘LINGZHI’ CUP EARLY QING DYNASTY
清初 玉雕靈芝洗 連木座

Estimate: 30,000 – 50,000 HKD
Lot sold: 37,800 HKD

Description
Property of a Lady

A PALE CELADON AND RUSSET JADE ‘LINGZHI’ CUP
EARLY QING DYNASTY

女史珍藏
清初 玉雕靈芝洗 連木座
11.5 cm

Condition Report
There are some possible recarved losses to the extremities on the lower left of the reverse. Some minute nibbling along the extremities.
左下端背面邊沿可能有小處重刻，邊沿見細小磕痕。

Provenance
Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1990s.

参考：
242 PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
清十八世紀 青白玉螭龍紋靈芝形盃
A PALE CELADON JADE ‘LINGZHI’ LIBATION CUP
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Estimate 80,000 — 120,000 GBP
LOT SOLD. 85,250 GBP
A PALE CELADON JADE ‘LINGZHI’ LIBATION CUP
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

carved and hollowed in the form of a large lingzhi fungus borne on gnarled branches forming the openwork base and curling around the sides issuing smaller lingzhi fungus, all below two clambering chilong and a pair of bats in flight, the rim with a large scaly dragon perched atop the rim eyeing a flaming pearl, the stone of an even pale celadon tone, wood stand
Quantity: 2
19cm., 7 1/2 in.

SALEROOM NOTICE
PROVENANCE
Christie’s New York, 30th March 2005, lot 121.
CATALOGUE NOTE
Jade vessels in the form of libation cups are rare and this piece is particularly impressive for its large size and robust carving. See another white jade libation cup decorated with scholars in a mountain landscape and dated to the dingyou year of the Qianlong period (corresponding to 1777), from the collections of T.B. Kitson, Mrs N.B. Pilcher and Alan and Simone Hartman, sold twice in these rooms, 18th October 1960, lot 146, and 30th October 1987, lot 287, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26th November 2006, lot 1388.

In its form and style of decoration it follows after rhinoceros horn carvings. As the distinctive pyramidal form and intricate carving of such vessels was based on the natural form and the relative softness of the rhinoceros horn, jade versions required an exceptionally large boulder from which to capture the form and countless hours of intensive labour to capture a similar degree of surface detail. The style of decoration, with the lingzhi modelled in the round to form the foot of the vessel and extending upwards together with the chilong and dragon handle, is also characteristic of rhinoceros horn carvings.