Lot 336
336
PROPERTY FROM A MIDWESTERN COLLECTION
A RARE INSCRIBED SPINACH GREEN JADE CYLINDRICAL BRUSHPOT

Details
A RARE INSCRIBED SPINACH GREEN JADE CYLINDRICAL BRUSHPOT
QIANLONG

Raised on four shallow, shaped supports and finely incised around the sides with a lengthy inscription by Su Dongbo, also incised with a Qianlong yuzhi four-character mark and inlaid with a white jade seal-shaped plaque carved with a Qianlong four-character mark, all of the incised characters highlighted in gilding reserved against the semi-translucent, rich green jade body suffused with swirls of dark and pale gray coloring
5 13/16in. (14.8cm.) high
Exhibited
San Antonio Museum, February-November, 1996, loan no. L.84.527

Lot Essay

A plain green jade cylindrical brushpot dated to the 18th century, was included in the exhibition, The Crawford Bequest, Chinese Objects in the Collection of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, February 6-March 14, 1993, Catalogue, p. 90, no. 54