唐珍收藏
拍品编号：0126
估价：GBP100,000—150,000
成交价：暂无数据
拍卖时间：2019-11-06 上午11:30
拍卖地点：伦敦
拍卖公司：伦敦蘇富比
简介：详情
A RARE LARGE JADEITE‘BOY’HEADREST
QING DYNASTY
清 翠玉雕连生贵子枕
the smiling figure kneeling and resting forward on his elbows with the head raised and turned slightly to one side, holding a sheng in one hand and lotus stems in the other extending over his shoulders to a large leaf covering his back forming the surface of the pillow, the stone of striated apple-green colour with mottling and some long flaws
拍品状况
图录资料
来源
Sir Ernest Cassel (1852-1921), London.
Thence by descent.
欧内斯特· 卡塞尔爵士（1852-1921年）收藏，此后家族传承
展览
International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Art, London, 1935, cat. no. 2873.
《中国艺术国际展览会》， 英国皇家艺术学院， 伦敦， 1935年，编号2873
相关资料
This jadeite pillow has been deftly carved in the form of a plump kneeling boy from an exceptionally large jadeite boulder of brilliant and variegated green tone. Pillows in the form of boys originated in the Song dynasty (960-1279), when they were given as wedding gifts to newly wedded couples. They represented the wish for the continuation of the family line and the birth of male offspring. The scholar Sun Simiao (581-682) in his Beiji qianjin yaofang [Prescriptions worth a thousand, for every emergency], expresses the widespread belief that the sex of foetuses could be influenced by the expectant mother through what she saw and ate, her emotions as well as her dreams. These figurative pillows were thus believed to both aid in the onset of pregnancy and positively influence mothers’ dreams. See Ann Barrott Wicks, Children in Chinese Art, Honolulu, 2002, p. 12.
A closely related jadeite boy pillow from the collection of Mr. H. Whitaker was included in the exhibition Catalogue of a Collection of Objects of Chinese Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1915, pl. XIII (top); a pair was sold twice in out Hong Kong rooms, 2nd December 1976, lot 726, and again, 18th November 1986, lot 193, from the collection of T.Y. Chao; and a smaller pair of pillows was sold at Christie’s New York, 21st September 2004, lot 118
Compare also a smaller green jade pillow in the form of a boy, from the collection of Heber R. Bishop in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. 02.18.426.
本玉枕雕工精湛，刻划童子跪姿，原玉庞大，玉色青翠鲜艳，深浅相间，秀丽雅致。此枕器形源自宋代，赠予新婚夫妇为贺礼，寄愿早生贵子，传宗接代。古人多有认为，妇人所见所食、所思所梦，可影响胎儿性别，此说亦见于唐孙思邈（581-682年）着《备急千金要方》。参阅Ann Barrott Wicks，《Children in Chinese Art》，火奴鲁鲁，2002年，页12。
比较一例，出自H. Whitaker先生收藏，曾展于《Catalogue of a Collection of Objects of Chinese Art》，Burlington Fine Arts Club，伦敦，1915年，图版XIII（上）；另一对例售于香港苏富比1976年12月2日，编号726，后易手于1986年11月18日，编号193，出自赵从衍收藏，另一对例尺寸较小，售于纽约佳士得2004年9月21日，编号118。
再比一例，尺寸较小，童子造型，出自纽约大都会美术博物馆Heber R. Bishop收藏，藏品编号02.18.426。
拍品分类：珠宝翡翠>珠宝翡翠
拍卖会：2019年11月拍卖会
拍卖专场：重要中国艺术
预展时间：2019年11月4日-5日
预展地点：伦敦
