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THBArchaistic Celadon Green Jade Bamboo Carved Vase
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Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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About Auction
LiveOct 30, 2024
Featuring items from a family collection of objects acquired in China in the early 1900s from Dr. Stanley Burns. Dr. Burns provided much needed medical care to the local population and helped combat infectious disease. Other Chinese and Japanese items from private collections include Qing dynasty enamel porcelains, bronze and porcelain water droppers, a fine selection of snuff bottles, along with a group of jade figures, bronze Buddhas, furniture and jewelry. Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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- Lot Description
with four character reign mark of the Qianlong emperor, cylindrical archaistic oval bamboo form vase/brush pot, with auspicious symbolism throughout the design, sides flanked with double clouds and chilongs, one leafy bamboo stalk, Greek key fret at rim, gilt inscribed Imperial poem, celadon coloring with minor black inclusions throughout, 4-3/8 x 2-7/8 x 1-3/4 in.
Note: This tests as nephrite on the Presidium Gem Tester II.
The rare calligraphy of the imperial reign mark on the base is possibly the work of jade craftsman Zhu Cai. For a jade object with a similar signature, please view Christie's Auction #16759, 2018, Lot 2930. https://www.christies.com/lot/an-important-and-extremely-rare-imperial-yellow-6146029/?intObjectID=6146029&lid=1.
Zhu Cai, the jade craftsman, was a famous engraver of calligraphy in the court workshops during the early Qianlong reign. He was selected by the Suzhou Central Bureau of Textiles to serve at the palace jade workshop inside the Zaobanchu. His name is frequently found in the Zaobanchu records between the Qianlong eighth to twenty-second year, in which he was often ordered to inscribe reign marks or Imperial poems, and to execute intricate diaper ground designs on jade pieces, as well as to carve Imperial seals.
A gilt inscription of a Tang Dynasty poem by Du Fu titled "嚴鄭公宅同詠竹" (Yan Zheng’s residence and Yongzhu). The poem loosely translated into English reads:
The green bamboo is half-sheathed, and the new shoots have just emerged from the wall.
The color of the bamboo is infiltrating the bookcase in the evening, and the shade is over the wine bottle.
The rain washes it clean, and the wind blows it with a delicate fragrance.
If you don't cut it, you will see it grow long and brush against the clouds.According to the seller of this object, it was acquired from a private collection from Boston, Massachusetts which included objects acquired in China with a Boxer Rebellion history, the previous history is unknown. The seller was informed this piece could possibly be Khotan jade.
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- Condition
very minor gilt loss, minute chips to edges of carving, rim and base most likely consistent with manufacturing, micro abrasions to surface as seen under high magnification, under blacklight some accretion visible in three areas of Greek key fret at top
