A pale green jade chilong-handled cup


Ming Dynasty The wide shallow vessel standing on a slightly splayed foot, flanked by a reticulated pair of chilong handles clambering on the rim, each grasping a stem of flowering prunus in its mouth, the exterior carved in low relief with a landscape scene on one side and on the other with a ten-character couplet reading yu liu bian zhou xiao, shan feng liang an wen. 14.3cm (5 1/2in) wide.
|明 青白玉透雕螭龍耳盃Provenance: An American private collectionMarchant, London來源：美國私人舊藏倫敦Marchant盃直口圓唇，腹部斜收，圈足直壁外撇，盃身兩側各鏤空雕螭龍銜花以為耳鋬，盃身一側淺浮雕詩文兩句，文曰：「漁留扁舟小，山風兩岸聞」，背側則浮雕淺刻溪山漁隱圖，畫面疏簡蕭瑟。明代承宋制，十分流行雙耳盃，背身淺浮雕山水詩文，耳鋬有作螭龍、花鳥、人物諸樣，本件為螭龍銜花耳，頗少見，可參考北京故宮藏一件明代白玉花耳山水人物盃，見《故宮博物院藏品大系玉器篇7》，北京，2011年，編號142，頁162。