JIAQING INSCRIBED FANGGU SIX-CHARACTER AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)

The current vessel continues the Qianlong practice of carving jade in loose interpretation of archaic bronze vessels. A smaller Qianlong-marked jade hu in the Avery Brundage Collection illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Chinese Treasures from the Avery Brundage Collection, The Asia Society, New York, 1968, no. 64, and previously in the collection of Lord and Lady Cunliffe, included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, Chinese Jades, London, 1948, pl. X, no. 163. A Qianlong fangu-marked vase with a similar arrangement of decorative motifs and carved from a very similar greyish-green stone from the Sir Isaac and Lady Wolfson Collection was sold at Sotheby's London, 8 June 1982, lot 315. Compare also a monumental spinach-green jade vase and cover with a Qianlong fanggu mark with a cyclical date corresponding to 1787 from the Prince Gong, and the Alan and Simone Hartman Collections, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2006, lot 1386.