清乾隆 碧玉英雄雙聯瓶

boldly worked and hollowed in the form of two tubular pedestal vases flanking an eagle standing on the head of a recumbent winged bear, the eagle's wings outstretched across both vases, each vase centred with a band enclosing stylised phoenix writhing sinuously and a chilong band, all between two pendent leiwen blades, the foot bordered with a key-fret band, the stone of a dark green colour mottled with grey and beige inclusions, wood stand

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香港佳士得2004年11月1日，編號834

The vase was formerly broken, possibly from falling, and has been professionally fixed together. There do not appear to be any missing elements apart from minute flakes, and there is overpainting covering the old restoration. The major breaks extend vertically through of the cylinders, and are visible on the interior. There are polished chips to the fragile exteriors. Other minor surface wear. The spinach-green jade material is heavily calcified, as visible in the catalogue photo.
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此碧玉英雄雙聯瓶體現了乾隆皇帝的慕古情懷。其形制源自漢青銅器，器身雙管以鷹（英）和熊（雄）相連。河北滿城漢墓出土雙聯瓶雛形，見 Jessica Rawson，《Chinese Jades. From the Neolithic to the Qing》，倫敦，1995年，頁387，圖版4。英雄雙聯瓶盛於宋，流傳至清，成為重要之陳設玉器及合婚所用之禮器 - 英雄合巹盃。

一件相似帶蓋例，見 Robert Kleiner，《Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman》，香港， 1996年，圖版73；一例售倫敦蘇富比1973年11月20日，編號71；另一例帶乾隆年款，藏北京故宮博物院，見《故宮博物院藏品大系‧玉器編》，10卷，北京，2011年，圖版149；另一稍大例為倫敦維多利亞和阿爾伯特博物館所藏，見 S. Howard Hansford,，《Chinese Carved Jades》，倫敦，1968年，圖版94。

英雄雙聯瓶樣式可見於不同材質作例，一傳為宋朝例，見 Paul Moss and Gerard Hawthorn，《The Second Bronze Age. Later Chinese Metalwork》，Sydney Moss Ltd.，倫敦，1991年，編號35；一掐絲琺瑯例，為 Clague 所藏，曾展於《Chinese Cloisonné》，鳳凰城美術博物館，鳳凰城，1980年，編號 39。