A LARGE GREEN JADE ARCHAISTIC GUI-FORM CENSER, MING DYNASTY

Yamanaka & Co., New York. 

American Art Association Anderson Galleries, Inc., New York, 4th December 1929, lot 79.

Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).

來源

山中商會，紐約

American Art Association Anderson Galleries，Inc.，紐約，1929年12月4日，編號79

史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏

See a closely related censer of this type in the National Museum of China, Beijing, published in Zhongguo guojia bowuguan guancang wenwu yanjiu congshu. Yuqi juan [Studies of the Collection of the National Museum of China. Jade], Shanghai, 2007, pl. 205, where based on the form and design a Wanli period attribution is suggested. Another similar example was included in the exhibition 80th Anniversary Exhibition of Chinese Jades from Han to Qing, S. Marchant & Son, London, 2005, cat. no., 106; a second sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 30th October 1991, lot 386; a third at Christie's New York, 13th-14th September 2018, lot 1172; and a fourth at Christie's Paris, 9th June 2015, lot 70. Compare also related censers carved with vertical ribs around the body instead of rows of bosses, such as one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Jadeware (II), Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 182; and another in the Tianjin Museum, Tianjin, published in Yang Boda, ed., Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jades], vol. 2, Shijiazhuang, 2005, no. 238.

參考一近例，現藏北京中國國家博物館，載於《中國國家博物館館藏文物研究叢書•玉器卷》上海，2007年，圖版205，書中記根據其器型，應為萬曆時期製品。另比一例，曾展於《80th Anniversary Exhibition of Chinese Jades from Han to Qing》，S. Marchant & Son，倫敦，2005年，編號106；再比一例，售於香港蘇富比1991年10月30日，編號386；尚有一例，售於紐約佳士得2018年9月13至14日，編號1172；巴黎佳士得亦售一例，售於2015年6月9日，編號70。此外亦可比較數例，刻直棱，其一藏於北京故宮博物院，圖載於《故宮博物院藏文物珍品全集•玉器卷（中）》，香港， 1995 年，圖版182；其二藏於天津博物館，載於楊伯達編，《中國玉器全集(中)》，卷2，石家莊，2005年，編號238。