A PAIR OF SPINACH-GREEN JADE 'BIRD AND FLOWER' PLAQUES, LATE QING DYNASTY

Auction Closed

September 23, 08:35 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

A PAIR OF SPINACH-GREEN JADE 'BIRD AND FLOWER' PLAQUES

LATE QING DYNASTY

清末碧玉雕花鳥圖插屏一對

each rectangular panel deftly carved in relief with a pair of peacocks amongst flowering trees, one panel finely incised on the reverse with pavilions in a landscape, the other incised with a poem composed by the Qianlong Emperor accompanied by two apocryphal Qianlong seals (2)

Height 17¼ in., 43.7 cm; Width 14 in., 35.6 cm

The inscribed panel:

S. & G. Gump Co., San Francisco.

Collection of Arthur Curtiss James (1867-1941).

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 13th-15th November 1941, lot 158.

The 'landscape' panel:

S. & G. Gump Co., San Francisco.

Both panels:

Collection of James Stewart Cushman (1871-1952).

Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4th October 1952, lots 322 and 323.

Collection of the family of William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), and thence by descent.

來源

詩文插屏：

S. & G. Gump Co.，舊金山

Arthur Curtiss James (1867-1941) 收藏

Parke-Bernet Galleries，紐約，1941年11月13至15日，編號158

山水圖插屏：

S. & G. Gump Co.，舊金山

一對插屏：

James Stewart Cushman (1871-1952) 收藏

Parke-Bernet Galleries，紐約，1952年10月4日，編號322及323

William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930) 家族收藏，此後家族傳承