Lot 174: SIX ARCHAISTIC JADE AND HARDSTONE ORNAMENTS Late Qing Dynasty

SIX ARCHAISTIC JADE AND HARDSTONE ORNAMENTS

Late Qing Dynasty

The rectangular jade bead of flattened form, decorated with five tiers of striped panels and
ruyi scrolls, inscribed with two archaistic characters, the green stone stained black in areas; the thick
bi disc with an off-centered perforation, the stone turned cream and brown in areas; the oval plaque carved with a boy at the center register, encircled with symbols of the Eight Trigrams on the flat border, the reverse carved with twelve archaic style characters of
di zhi, the celadon stone mottled russet brown; the
bi disc surmounted by a
chi dragon holding a
lingzhi stalk in the mouth, the reverse carved with neatly lined bosses, the white jade with degraded surface; the short
cong with circular rims and square corners, the olive-green stone stained black in areas; the large jade tube with flaring rim decorated with two registers of square corners and a raised band incised with scrolling
ruyi pattern within line borders, the olive-green stone mottled russet-brown. (6)


Rectangular bead: 1 7/8in (4.8cm) long;
Bi disc: 1 3/4in 4.5cm long;
Oval plaque: 2 9/16in (6.5cm) long;
Chi dragon bi disc: 2 1/16in (5.3cm) diam;
Short cong: 1 1/2in (3.8cm) wide;
Large tube: 6 1/16in (5.4cm) high

PLEASE NOTE: This report describes, but may not be limited to, major condition issues for the lot.







Minor surface pitting and wear. Stones altered to induce colors and textures for the appearance of antiquity. Old chips to corners, most significantly to the flaring rim of the tube, approx. 2.9cm wide.

清末 仿古玉石飾 勒子 壁 琮 管 共六件



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Gift of Samuel T. Peters, 1916

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1916-present




來源：

Samuel T. Peters 1916 年贈

大都會藝術博物館，1916 年迄今



The twelve archaistic characters,
di zhi, inscribed on the oval plaque may be read as: 子丑寅卯辰巳午未申酉戌亥.



Compare the jade
bi disc carved with a
chi dragon in high relief on one side, the other side with C-scrolls in low relief, illustrated by Knight, Li and Tse Bartholomew,
Chinese Jades: Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century, From the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 2007, p. 224, no. 243, described as 19th century.

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