A Journey Through China's History. The Dr Wou Kiuan Collection Part 3
A Journey Through China's History. The Dr Wou Kiuan Collection Part 3
A spinach-green jade archaistic vessel, fang ding, Incised mark and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 碧玉仿古饕餮紋鼎 《大清乾隆年製》款
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A spinach-green jade archaistic vessel, fang ding
Incised mark and period of Qianlong
清乾隆 碧玉仿古饕餮紋鼎 《大清乾隆年製》款
the base with an incised and gilt six-character reign mark
Height 16.8 cm, 6⅝ in.
Collection of Wou Kiuan (1910-1997).
Wou Lien-Pai Museum, coll. no. Q.9.6.
吳權博士 (1910-1997) 收藏
吳蓮伯博物院，編號Q.9.6
Intricately carved around the body with taotie masks, this censer encapsulates the Qianlong Emperor’s devotion towards China’s past and his efforts to revive celebrated traditions. Compare a related vessel and cover, flanked by upright handles with loose rings, from the collection of the late Countess Mountbatten of Burma, illustrated in Dennis Holman, Lady Louis, Life of the Countess of Burma, London, 1952, pp. 8-9, and sold in these rooms, 24th March 2021, lot 227; and another fang ding, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Zhongguo yuqi quanji [Complete Collection of Jades in China], vol. 6, Shijiazhuang, 1993, pl. 342.