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Lot Essay
The present vase follows the archaic bronze prototype, fanggu, a type of wine vessel used in the rituals of the Shang and Zhou dynasties. By the Qing period, archaic forms and motifs found great popularity at court and a number of jade vessels, such as the present example, were produced to reflect the fashion of the period.
Compare with a slightly taller white jade gu-form vase (24.3 cm. high) in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing Court, Taipei, 1997, no. 11. Compare also with a few other jade gu-form vases of varying sizes, shapes and types of jades in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadeware, III, Hong Kong, 1995, nos. 130-134.
Compare with a slightly taller white jade gu-form vase (24.3 cm. high) in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in The Refined Taste of the Emperor: Special Exhibition of Archaic and Pictorial Jades of the Ch’ing Court, Taipei, 1997, no. 11. Compare also with a few other jade gu-form vases of varying sizes, shapes and types of jades in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Jadeware, III, Hong Kong, 1995, nos. 130-134.