Edward Luper
Specialist, Chinese Works of Art
Property from the Cunliffe Collection of Chinese Art
Cunliffe藏中國藝術珍品
Cunliffe藏中國藝術珍品
Lot 14
Five archaic jade plaques Shang and Zhou Dynasties
12 May 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £22,500 inc. premium
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Five archaic jade plaques
Shang and Zhou Dynasties
Comprising a mottled pale whitish-green fish with a long dorsal fin and a shorter side fin, lightly incised with lines, no.JA67, 9.5cm (3 7/8in) long; another smaller black jade fish similarly craved, no.JA24, 8.7cm (3 3/8in) long; two birds carved from a pale even and olive-brown translucent stone, no.JA52, 3.4cm (1 5/8in) wide and no.JA55, 7.5cm (2 7/8in) wide; together with a pale green stone figure of a crouching tiger, no.JA69, 5.8cm (2 2/8in) wide. (5).
Comprising a mottled pale whitish-green fish with a long dorsal fin and a shorter side fin, lightly incised with lines, no.JA67, 9.5cm (3 7/8in) long; another smaller black jade fish similarly craved, no.JA24, 8.7cm (3 3/8in) long; two birds carved from a pale even and olive-brown translucent stone, no.JA52, 3.4cm (1 5/8in) wide and no.JA55, 7.5cm (2 7/8in) wide; together with a pale green stone figure of a crouching tiger, no.JA69, 5.8cm (2 2/8in) wide. (5).
Footnotes
商及周 高古玉飾件 一組五件
Provenance: Rolf, Lord Cunliffe (1899-1963), Honorary Keeper of the Far Eastern Collections at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Acquired from Sydney Moss Ltd., London in 1947 (no.JA24)
Acquired from Rocca by Bluett & Sons Ltd., London on 27 October 1949 (no.JA67)
Acquired from Bluett & Sons Ltd., London on 29 September 1949 (no.JA67)
Acquired from Michou by Bluett & Sons Ltd., London in 1949 (no.JA55)
Acquired from Bluett & Sons Ltd., London on 19 February 1949 (no.JA55)
Sotheby's London, 3 April 1941, lot 209 (no.JA52)
Acquired through John Sparks Ltd., London in June 1948 (no.JA52)
Acquired from T.Y. King by Bluett & Sons on 21 February 1950 (no.JA69)
Acquired from Bluett & Sons Ltd., London on 22 February 1950 (no.JA69)
The Cunliffe Collection, and thence by descent
Exhibited:
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1962-2002 (no.JA67)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1962-2002 (no.JA55)
Bradford, Chinese Art, 1932, no.87 (no.JA52)
Manchester City Art Gallery, Chinese Exhibition, 1936, no.93 (no.JA52)
Ashomolean Museum, Oxford, 1962-2002 (no.JA69)
來源： 劍橋菲茨威廉博物館東方藝術部名譽主任，Rolf Cunliffe勳爵 (1899-1963)
於1947年購自倫敦古董商Sydney Moss Ltd.(no.JA24)
於1949年9月29日購自倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.(no.JA67)
於1949年2月19日購自倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.(no.JA55)
1941年4月3日於倫敦蘇富比拍賣，拍品209號(no.JA52)
於1948年6月購自倫敦古董商John Sparks Ltd.(no.JA52)
於1950年2月22日購自倫敦古董商Bluett & Sons Ltd.(no.JA69)
Cunliffe收藏，並由後人保存迄今
展覽：
於1962至2002年間於牛津阿什莫林博物館展出（no.JA67, no.JA55, no.JA69）
1932於布拉德福德展出，展品(no.JA52)
1936年於曼徹斯特市立藝廊「Chinese Exhibition（中國藝術）」特展展出，展品93號(no.JA52)
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