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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 6, 2016 | Sotheby's | Hong Kong | Emperors’ Playthings – a Connoisseur’s Collection | 3007 | $****** - ****** | A PAIR OF IMPERIAL ALBUMS BY THE QIANLONG EMPEROR AFTER NI ZAN, INSET WITH JADE DISCS |
sculpture
Jade
each album carefully placed within zitan covers, the interior with a silk-lined cavity for the jade jue on the left, the right side with an ink on paper painting, one depicting an overhanging pine branch above a flowing stream and impressed with two seals reading langrun and ju shuiyue zaishou, the other decorated with bamboo shoots issuing behind gnarled jagged rockwork with two seals reading bide and aizhu xuexin xu, the front cover incised and filled in with gilt with a four-character inscription, one reading cangzhi zihua, the other fuyun shurun; one russet jade jue meticulously worked on both sides as a pair of ferociously confronting dragons, the sides of the disc picked out with scrolls and archaistic geometric motifs; one beige and brown jade archaistic jue well worked on both sides as a stylised pair of confronting fish; all fitted in its original tiered box and cover, the exterior save for the base lined with brocade, the cover topped with a zitan panel finely carved in low relief with lotus flowers and leafy scrollwork
