A CELADON JADE SAMPAN

细节

A CELADON JADE SAMPAN
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Well carved as a fishing boat riding across crested waves steered by a helmsman in an alert attitude at the stern, beside another figure brewing tea, while a small boy at the bow hauls up a fishing net, the awning finely detailed with a net strewn across the woven rattan and with a basket hanging from the stern, the stone of a soft celadon tone mottled with areas of opacity
8 5/8 in. (21.8 cm.) long, stand

来源

Hugh Moss, Hong Kong, circa 1975

出版

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 165

展览

Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004

拍品专文

This type of fishing boat was common on the lakes and rivers of China in the 18th and 19th centuries, and numerous carvings in jade of these vessels have survived. A related example modelled as a double-boat group, from the Beijing Palace Museum, is illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, vol. 6, p. 191, no. 274; one in the Seattle Art Museum is illustrated by James Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 1989, pl. 64; one is in the Tianjin Municipal Museum, illustrated in Cang Yu, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 223; an example was included in S. Marchant & Son's 80th Anniversary Exhibition of Chinese Jades from Han to Qing, London, 2005, Catalogue no. 88; and another, from the Greenfield and Tianhe Shanfang Collections, was sold in these Rooms, 30 May 2005, lot 1556.