A FINELY CARVED IMPERIAL SPINACH-GREEN JADE AXE
A FINELY CARVED IMPERIAL SPINACH-GREEN JADE AXE
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御製碧玉饕餮紋斧  《大清乾隆仿古》楷書刻款

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清乾隆  御製碧玉饕餮紋斧  《大清乾隆仿古》楷書刻款

器呈斧形,近頂兩個圓孔,兩面淺雕饕餮紋,兩側齒形出戟,一側邊刻「大清乾隆仿古」款,另一邊刻「月字第十六號」。玉質碧綠色帶深斑。

玉斧在古代為禮器,此器為乾隆年間御製仿古玉器之一。同系列一件「人字七十九號」白玉鳳紋長宜子孫璧2010年9月16日於紐約佳士得拍賣,拍品1094號。英國劍橋菲茨威廉博物館藏另一「良字一百六十八號」白玉鳳紋長宜子孫璧,見C.S. Lin著「The Collection of Qing Dynasty Jades in the Fitzwilliam Museum」,載於2010年5-6月《Arts of Asia》,114頁,圖14;作者指出此玉器系列依千字文排號,最高號為「讚」字。清宮舊藏亦包括一件「覆字一百八十八號」白玉鳳紋長宜子孫璧,見1995年香港出版故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集《玉器.下》,圖版127號。

與此器相近的乾隆款碧玉夔紋大斧一件,載於1995年香港出版故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集《玉器.下》,圖版120號。北京故宮博物院另藏一件同樣「大清乾隆仿古」款碧玉獸面紋兕觥,其紋飾、出戟造型與本器相若,見2007年澳洲出版《晶瑩的世界:故宮藏中國古代玉器》,圖版112號。

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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.

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