A pale green and grey jade 'squirrels and pine' brushpot


Mid Qing DynastyThe deeply hollowed vessel naturalistically rendered in the form of a tree trunk, the exterior vividly carved in relief with two squirrels playfully clambering amidst gnarled pine trees, the stone of a pale celadon and purplish grey tone with dark grey mottling. 12.5cm (5in) high.
|清中期 青玉褐沁雕松石松鼠筆筒Provenance: A French private collectionJosette Schulmann, Paris, 19 December 1976Marchant, London來源：法國私人舊藏巴黎Josette Schulmann，1976年12月19日倫敦MarchantCompare with a related grey jade brush pot in the form of a pine tree with monkeys, 18th/19th century, illustrated by M.Knight and H.Li in Later Chinese Jades Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century from the Asian At Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, 2007, p.110, no.80; see another white jade 'pine and crane' brush pot, Qing dynasty, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Jade 9 Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2010, no.4. Compare also with a related brown and white jade boulder carved with pine and a long tailed bird, 17th/18th century, illustrated by R.Keverne, ed., Jade, London, 1995, p.166, fig.97.青玉質，玉身大部呈肉紫色且有天然褐沁，方口磨緣，其下雕松枝三組下探，枝老遒勁，松針如雲，直接底部山石，青玉松針間雕松鼠兩隻，嬉戲其間，動態如生。舊金山亞洲藝術博物館藏一件十八至十九世紀松石戲猴筆筒可資參考，其松枝松針之態與本品頗似，見M.Knight及H.Li等著《Later Chinese Jades Ming Dynasty to Early Twentieth Century from the Asian At Museum of San Francisco》, 舊金山，2007，頁110，編號80。另可比較一件北京故宮藏之青玉松鶴圖筆筒，風格類似，見《故宮博物院藏品大系玉器篇9》，北京，2011年，編號4。另有一件白玉褐沁雕松鳥筆筒，17/18世紀，見R.Keverne，《Jade》，倫敦，1995年，頁166，圖97。