CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A QUATRE CARACTERES EN CACHET QIANLONG FANGGU ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)

Details

COUPELLE EN JADE BLANC, PAN
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A QUATRE CARACTERES EN CACHET QIANLONG FANGGU ET EPOQUE QIANLONG (1736-1795)
De forme circulaire, reposant sur un petit pied, rehaussée de deux anses imitant un motif archaïque en forme de 's' accolé à un cylindre percé, la bordure extérieure ornée d'une fine frise incisée de grecques, la base rehaussée d'une marque à quatre caractères dans un carré divisé en quatre: Qianlong fanggu ('En imitation de l'Ancien durant l'époque de Qianlong')
Largeur: 11,2 cm. (4 in.)

Provenance

J.J.Lally & Co., New York, Novembre 2001

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Further details

A WHITE JADE CUP, PAN
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 'QIANLONG FANGGU' INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER SQUARE MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

Lot Essay

This cup is a good illustration of the wave of archaism which appeared under Yongzheng and Qianlong reigns. It was probably used as a brushwasher and was made after a much larger bronze water-vessel from the Bronze age called pan. This very elegant form is unusual for Qianlong archaism jade production. The seal-script is extremely rare and exists with a very comparable writting on only one other published jade, also an archaistic vessel (a guang) still in the Imperial collection in Beijing except that its mark has no dividing lines between the characters. It is possible that this rare seal-script variant of a well-known Palace mark of the Qianlong period was confined to archaistic vessels directly copying ancient bronze forms.

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