AN EMERALD-GREEN AND PALE GREYISH GREEN JADEITE CENSER AND COVER
AN EMERALD-GREEN AND PALE GREYISH GREEN JADEITE CENSER AND COVER
AN EMERALD-GREEN AND PALE GREYISH GREEN JADEITE CENSER AND COVER
AN EMERALD-GREEN AND PALE GREYISH GREEN JADEITE CENSER AND COVER
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THE FLORENCE AND HERBERT IRVING COLLECTION
翠玉獸面紋龍鈕蓋爐

CHINA, 19TH- EARLY 20TH CENTURY

細節
翠玉獸面紋龍鈕蓋爐
7 ¼ in. (18.5 cm.) high
來源
Alice Boney, New York.
Earl Morse (1908-1988) Collection, New York, 1984.
The Irving Collection no. 425.
出版
Hugo Munsterberg, The Arts of China, Rutland and Tokyo, 1972, pl. 113 and p. 219.

拍品專文

The present censer is carved from a particularly striking jadeite stone streaked with vibrant emerald-green inclusions. Jadeite was known in China during the Ming Dynasty but was not generally accepted as a material for carvings until the latter part of the Qianlong reign in the late eighteenth century. A generic jade material from Burma, jadeite is distinct from nephrite in appearance and texture, with a brilliant spectrum of colors, and as such, jadeite was of historical importance, largely for the development of jade as jewellery in China. During the later nineteenth century, the glass-like translucency of the rarest emerald-green-colored jadeite came to be prized by the ladies of the Qing court, led by the formidable Empress Dowager Cixi herself. From then on, gem-quality jadeite became synonymous with status and sophistication.

Compare the present censer to an example with similar emerald-green inclusions in the stone, sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 30 November 2011, lot 3270. See, also, a lavender and emerald-green jadeite tripod censer and cover in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated by Pierre-F. Schneeberger in The Baur Collection Geneva: Chinese Jades and Other Hardstones, Geneva, 1976, no. B 64.

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