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.
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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。