A RARE PALE CELADON JADE WATERPOT

細節

A RARE PALE CELADON JADE WATERPOT
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY

With steep sides rising to a rounded shoulder and oval everted mouth, carved in high relief around the sides with three vigorous contorted chilong, each grasping a ruyi in its mouth, their front paws resting on a band of cloud scrolls encircling the shoulder of the waterpot, all resting on a ruyi cloud apron foot, the recessed base unusually carved with two bats in flight amidst clouds
5 5/8 in. (14.3 cm.) wide, stand

出版

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 50

展覽

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

拍品專文

The vitalitly of the dragons depicted on this waterpot typifies the free carving of the late Ming dyansty which would become more restictive and formailsed with the advent of the Qing dynasty.

No other waterpots of this form appear to have been published. Cf. similar carving on two cups with dragon handles in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadeware (II), Hong Kong, 1995, pp. 248-249, nos. 191 and 192; compare also another two handled cup in the Gerald Godfrey Collection, sold in these Rooms, 30 October 1995, lot 898.

拍品專文

更多來自 瑰玉清雕──Alan and Simone Hartman重要玉器珍藏(II)

更多來自瑰玉清雕──Alan and Simone Hartman重要玉器珍藏(II)