Lot 3402
  • 3402

A RARE CARVED AMETHYST BRUSH WASHER AND STAINED IVORY STAND QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD |

Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 HKD
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Description

  • 10.5 cm, 4 1/8  in.; overall 11.1 cm, 4 3/8  in.
finely carved in the form of two adjacent lingzhi-shaped washers with a bat perched on one edge, borne on gnarled leafy stems issuing further smaller lingzhi heads with a chilong clambering atop, the beast with a sinuous body terminating in a bifurcated tail, detailed with a finely combed mane and beard, the transparent stone of a pale violet tone with lighter inclusions, the brown-stained ivory stand intricately carved in openwork with a beribboned bundle of curved stems issuing budding and flowering lotus, broad veined leaves and arrowheads

Provenance

Joseph M. Morpurgo,阿姆斯特丹,千禧年初

Exhibited

賽奴奇亞洲博物館,巴黎,1937年7月(標籤)

Catalogue Note

此紫晶圓雕螭龍瑞芝洗,形雅工巧,選材獨特,置於文房書齋,尤添趣味。有清一朝,雖有以水晶為材之作,但紫晶之器甚稀,且多屬小物,如文房用品、鼻煙壺、印璽等,例如沈陽故宮博物院藏粉色紫晶靈芝卷雲花插及台北故宮博物院藏紫晶仙人像。參考清雍正時期弘曆御極前用之紫晶螭鈕「樂善堂」橢圓璽,屬寶親王寶十六方組璽之一,現藏北京故宮博物院,見《故宮經典-明清帝后寶璽》,北京,2008年,編號182,頁222。 有關以紫晶為材之記錄,則可參考乾隆四十七年(1782年)正月,賞賜公班第達(1721-1792年)之物,包括紫晶玉蘭花插一件,見《清宮內務府造辦處檔案總匯》,北京,2005年,卷45,頁422-423。