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9 mai 2014

A brown and black jade archaistic jade vessel, gong, Ming dynasty

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A brown and black jade archaistic jade vessel, gong, Ming dynasty. Photo Sotheby's

the deep sides extended to a flared spout, carved to one side in openwork with two chilong peering over the rim forming the handle, all supported on a tall ribbed foot, the exterior decorated in low relief with archaistic roundels reserved on a wide band of interlocking cloud scrolls, incised at the rim with a foliate scroll and the foot with a chevron band, the stone of a beige-brown tone with darker russet and black inclusions; 17.7cm., 7in. Estimation 50,000 — 70,000 GBP

The form of this vessel was inspired by archetypal bronze ritual wine vessels, gong, which originated in the second phase of the Anyang period (1300-1028 BC). Jade vessels of this type, with similarly modelled chilong handles, include one included in the exhibition Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1975, cat no. 311; another, of more elongated form, in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, published in James C. S. Lin, The Immortal Stone. Chinese Jades from the Neolithic Period to the Twentieth Century, Cambridge, 2009, pl. 64; and a third example illustrated in Tianjin shi yishu bowuyuan cang. Yu [Jade in the Tianjin City Art Museum], Tianjin, 1993, pl. 183.

Jade gong are known in a variety of forms and decorated with a range of archaistic designs; for example see one with a raised horizontal band divided by vertical flanges, in the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, illustrated in Qin Xiaoyi, Hai-wai Yi-Chen. Chinese Art in Overseas Collections. Jade II, Taipei, 1992, pl. 190.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. London, 14 mai 2014 -http://www.sothebys.com/

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