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拍品专文
This plaque is an example of the Qianlong emperor's love of archaism. Qianlong had a series of jade plaques made based on ancient forms. The inscription, Yuezi di shiliu hao, is an inventory number. The character yue represents the series that the plaque came from, and di shiliu hao (no. 16) represents the plaque's position within the series. The series was named after the sequence of characters in the Qianzi wan, 'The Thousand Character Essay', which was used as a tamper-resistant way to write numbers, since each character is only used once. Yue is the 10th character in the essay.
Compare with a white jade plaque from the series sold at Christie's New York, 24-25th March 2011, lot 1532. An example of a plaque from the ren (79th character) series was sold at Christie's New York, 16 September 2010, lot 1094. According to C.S. Lin in 'The Collection of Qing Dynasty Jades in the Fitzwilliam Museum', Arts of Asia Magazine, May-June 2010, p. 115, the highest character in the series known, is the character zan, which is the 198th character in the essay. A plaque from the liang (168th) series is also illustrated, ibid. , p.114, no. 14, and there is one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum-Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 127.
Compare also with a Qianlong-marked spinach-green jade axe-head with a similarly carved band of confronted kui dragons in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated ibid, pl. 120.
The style of the carving also relates very closely to a spinach-green jade archaistic vessel bearing a Daqing Qianlong fanggu mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing included in the exhibition Translucent World: Chinese Jade from the Forbidden City, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007 and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 112. The taotie masks, flanges and material used all relate closely to the present example.
Compare with a white jade plaque from the series sold at Christie's New York, 24-25th March 2011, lot 1532. An example of a plaque from the ren (79th character) series was sold at Christie's New York, 16 September 2010, lot 1094. According to C.S. Lin in 'The Collection of Qing Dynasty Jades in the Fitzwilliam Museum', Arts of Asia Magazine, May-June 2010, p. 115, the highest character in the series known, is the character zan, which is the 198th character in the essay. A plaque from the liang (168th) series is also illustrated, ibid. , p.114, no. 14, and there is one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum-Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 127.
Compare also with a Qianlong-marked spinach-green jade axe-head with a similarly carved band of confronted kui dragons in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated ibid, pl. 120.
The style of the carving also relates very closely to a spinach-green jade archaistic vessel bearing a Daqing Qianlong fanggu mark in the Palace Museum, Beijing included in the exhibition Translucent World: Chinese Jade from the Forbidden City, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2007 and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 112. The taotie masks, flanges and material used all relate closely to the present example.