拍品專文
A similar ewer, also with a gilt-bronze tripod handle and with a Jiaqing yu yong four-character mark, Jiaqing, for Imperial use, in the collection of Sir John Woolf, is illustrated by S.Howard Hansford, Chinese Carved Jades, New York, 1968, pl.93. Another in the Palace Museum is illustrated by Wango Weng and Yang Boda, The Palace Museum, Peking, New York, 1982, p.265, no.166; Zhongguo Meishu Quanji, vol.9, Jade, p.199, col.pl.331; and Zhongguo Wenwu Jinghua Daquan, Gold, Silver, Jade and Stone, pl.229.
Compare also, the white jade ewer of this form, carved around the lobed sides in shallow relief with rows of overlapping petals, and with a tripod handle in jade rather than gilt-bronze, included in the Special Exhibition of Hindustan Jade in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1983, Catalogue, pl.74, which may be the inspiration for the Jiaqing examples
Compare also, the white jade ewer of this form, carved around the lobed sides in shallow relief with rows of overlapping petals, and with a tripod handle in jade rather than gilt-bronze, included in the Special Exhibition of Hindustan Jade in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1983, Catalogue, pl.74, which may be the inspiration for the Jiaqing examples