清乾隆 鎏金方鼎式龍紋銅香爐/龙纹铜香炉

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清乾隆 鎏金方鼎式龍紋香爐/龙纹铜香炉

箸瓶、炉、盒三件组合的所谓“瓶炉三事”最早在绘画上见于山西省博物馆所藏元至正时期《祇园大会图卷》，虽然明清时期线香流行，但主要适用于焚烧丸香、香块等香料的这种“瓶炉三事”组合仍有传袭，如《明集礼》卷37上“明器”条录明代开平忠武王之葬墓中器玩90件，其中即有香合一、香匙一、香筯二、香匙筯瓶一。

而清代乾嘉时期的《倦勤斋陈设档》记录了故宫倦勤斋的西稍间宝座其右设香几，几上陈设有“青白玉有盖炉瓶盒一分”，显示了清帝对香事和香具的喜爱，以瓷、玉制作相关器具亦属自然。而且从故宫及西安收藏的同类青玉和白玉四柱形器纹饰比较，构图大致相同，但是在填充的蝉纹、龙纹等装饰细节上有一定差异，乾隆时期仿定窑四柱形炉更有自身摹古特色，显示乾隆时期在制作这类四柱形器大致遵循了一定的造型，但也有个体制作差异。

陕西历史博物馆梁彦民先生曾撰文《殷周时期青铜调色器小议》，介绍了殷周青铜器中有一类形制奇特的四柱形器，一般认为这是一种古代用来调颜料的器物，称为调色器。

1972年安阳殷墟AGM82商代墓出土的四柱形铜器（图6），高7.2厘米。类似的器物在商周青铜器中还有一些发现。这些器物在形式上虽然有一些差别，但其共同点是作四柱形器，器体大致相同，四角皆连四圆筒，中部有上下贯通的大圆孔。美国哈佛大学福格艺术馆也有类似铜器藏品，高16厘米。

北京故宫博物院收藏有一件三筒形铜器，通高7.5厘米。三角形，只有三个圆筒，器壁有半环形鋬。

参考：佳士得
14 9月 2017| 現場拍賣 13751
中國瓷器及工藝精品
拍品 1024 清乾隆 碧玉 三式香炉
A RARE THREE-PIECE GREEN JADE INCENSE GARNITURE
PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
18TH CENTURY

成交價 USD 52,500
估價 USD 40,000 – USD 60,000

A RARE THREE-PIECE GREEN JADE INCENSE GARNITURE
18TH CENTURY
The garniture is comprised of a covered censer, a tool vase and an incense box and cover, all with lobed corners. The censer is carved with a band of intertwined archaistic serpents above a band of shou characters flanked by archaistic motifs, and has a pair of animal-mask and loose ring handles on the narrow sides. The cover is carved in high relief at each corner with a coiled chilong and is surmounted by a coiled, openwork dragon finial. The tool vase is carved in low relief with intertwined archaistic dragons, and the slightly domed cover of the box is carved with a formal floral motif within a border of conjoined C-scrolls. The semi-translucent stone is of mottled green color and rich tone.
The censer 5 ¾ in. (14.7 cm.) wide, hongmu stands

來源
George H. Taber (1859-1940) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.

注意事項
Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

狀況報告
We have sought to record changes in the condition of this piece acquired after its initial manufacture
Tool vase:
– small nicks to foot and a few shallow nicks to surface
Censer and cover:
– shallow surface nick to the base
– small areas of polish to the four feet
– minute nicks to mouth rim
– chip and a few nicks to the inner mouth rim of the cover
– chip and a few nicks to the outer edge of the mouth rim of the cover
Incense box and cover:
– chip to foot of box
– nicks to inner and outer mouth rims of box and cover
All:
– There are some expected losses and repairs to the wood stands

拍品專文
George Hathaway Taber Jr. (1859-1940) was a prolific collector of Chinese ceramics and jades with a discerning eye. He was the son of Capt. George H. Taber (1808-1901), who rose from a humble background to become a prominent member of the community and held a number of important official positions including serving as President of Fairhaven Bank. The younger Taber made his mark as an oil executive and ultimately as a board member with the Gulf Oil Company. A self-taught engineer, he was instrumental in developing important advances in the oil-refining technique. Believed to have been influenced by a relative who had brought back tales and beautiful objects from his travels in China, George Hathaway Taber, Jr. built up an extraordinary collection, which was loaned or gifted to a number of museums, including the Philbrook Museum, to form the core of the Chinese collection. Upon his death in 1940, the collection was split up between his descendants, and part of it was sold at the Park Bernet Galleries, New York, 7-8 March 1946.

Compare with incense garnitures produced in a variety of materials in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, 1994, and illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 82 and 89 (porcelain imitating early bronzes), nos. 84 and 85 (white jade), no. 86 (champlevé enamel), no. 87 (molded celadon porcelain), and no. 88 (enamel on metal).

The ritual of incense burning served not only a spiritual element, but it facilitated other more practical purposes, such as the fumigation of clothes. Each of these vessels was used for a specific purpose: the box and cover for storage of incense, either in strip, coil or pellet form, whilst the tool vase accommodated implements such as chopsticks and a spatula to rake or smooth the bed of ashes placed in the censer.

Compare, also, with two jade garnitures sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 October 2000, lot 657 (celadon jade) and lot 658 (white jade).

参考：Bonhams Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
29 May 2018, 14:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Admiralty
LOT 29 十八世紀 碧玉四柱式爐
A rare spinach-green jade archaistic incense burner and cover, tulu 18th century

Sold for HK$ 450,000 (CA$ 76,292) inc. premium

碧玉，有墨點及深色綠斑。爐方形，四柱相連式，柱下為爐足，柱頂各飾一螭龍，爐兩側飾夔式耳。爐蓋頂鏤雕蟠龍鈕，四爪伸向蓋四角，四角各雕一笑螭。爐身外壁上部雕交錯夔龍紋，下部雕「壽」字，四管下部雕夔鳳紋。

此碧玉爐仿上古青銅彝器，通常與瓶、盒組成熏香用具，為三事之一。清宮多以不同物料製作「三事」，如瓷、漆、銅、琺瑯、玉等，其紋飾及樣式一致成套，以碧玉製成者則較為少見。北京故宮博物院藏一件類似的碧玉四柱式爐，見《故宮博物院藏品大系：玉器編10·清》，北京，2010年，圖111；另見巴黎裝飾藝術博物館中藏碧玉三事一套，包括一件類似的四柱式爐，見Tsao Huei-chung，《Jade: From Emperors to Art Deco》，巴黎，2016年，圖132。

維多利亞及阿爾伯特博物館亦藏有一件碧玉雕四柱式爐可資比較，見M.Wilson，《Chinese Jades》，倫敦，2004年，圖52；另見一例，出版於R. Kleiner著，《Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman》，香港，1996年，圖74，後售於香港佳士得，2007年11月27日，拍品編號1548。

参考：佳士得
拍賣 12289
中國瓷器、工藝品及紡織品（第一部分）
倫敦南肯辛頓|2016年5月11日
拍品208 明清 鎏金鼓形三足炉
A PARCEL-GILT DRUM-FORMED TRIPOD CENSER
17TH-18TH CENTURY

成交總額 GBP 8,125
估價 GBP 1,000 – GBP 2,000

A PARCEL-GILT DRUM-FORMED TRIPOD CENSER
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The censer is modelled with four tiers and it is supported on three elephant-head feet. The sides are moulded with kui dragons and a pair of elephant-head handles between bands of raised nodes.
3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high, wood stand

來源
Property from the Professor Frederick Seguier Drake (1892-1976) Family Collection.
Property from the Collection of Mr and Mrs Bernard Drake.

参考：佳士得
拍賣 10416
中國陶瓷、工藝精品與紡織品
倫敦南肯辛頓|2015年5月12日
拍品264 清乾隆 鎏金铜炉
A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE PART INCENSE GARNITURE QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

成交總額 GBP 10,000
估價 GBP 1,000 – GBP 1,500

A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE PART INCENSE GARNITURE
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The first is a conjoined tool vase decorated in relief with a pair of phoenix to the lower body and two bats to the neck. The second is a matching box and cover decorated with pairs of archaistic confronting chilong to each side and a stylised taotie mask to the cover.

The larger, 5 ¼ in. (13.4 cm.) high

來源
Christie’s South Kensington, 14 July 2006, lot 46.
Property from the Sui Yuan Zhai Collection.

参考：佳士得
拍卖 13751
中国瓷器及工艺精品
纽约|2017年9月14日 – 15日
拍品1024 清乾隆 鎏金铜炉
PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION
A RARE THREE-PIECE GREEN JADE INCENSE GARNITURE
18TH CENTURY

成交总额 USD 52,500
估价 USD 40,000 – USD 60,000

A RARE THREE-PIECE GREEN JADE INCENSE GARNITURE
18TH CENTURY

The garniture is comprised of a covered censer, a tool vase and an incense box and cover, all with lobed corners. The censer is carved with a band of intertwined archaistic serpents above a band of shou characters flanked by archaistic motifs, and has a pair of animal-mask and loose ring handles on the narrow sides. The cover is carved in high relief at each corner with a coiled chilong and is surmounted by a coiled, openwork dragon finial. The tool vase is carved in low relief with intertwined archaistic dragons, and the slightly domed cover of the box is carved with a formal floral motif within a border of conjoined C-scrolls. The semi-translucent stone is of mottled green color and rich tone.

The censer 5 ¾ in. (14.7 cm.) wide, hongmu stands

来源
George H. Taber (1859-1940) Collection, and thence by descent within the family.

拍品专文
George Hathaway Taber Jr. (1859-1940) was a prolific collector of Chinese ceramics and jades with a discerning eye. He was the son of Capt. George H. Taber (1808-1901), who rose from a humble background to become a prominent member of the community and held a number of important official positions including serving as President of Fairhaven Bank. The younger Taber made his mark as an oil executive and ultimately as a board member with the Gulf Oil Company. A self-taught engineer, he was instrumental in developing important advances in the oil-refining technique. Believed to have been influenced by a relative who had brought back tales and beautiful objects from his travels in China, George Hathaway Taber, Jr. built up an extraordinary collection, which was loaned or gifted to a number of museums, including the Philbrook Museum, to form the core of the Chinese collection. Upon his death in 1940, the collection was split up between his descendants, and part of it was sold at the Park Bernet Galleries, New York, 7-8 March 1946.

Compare with incense garnitures produced in a variety of materials in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, 1994, and illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 82 and 89 (porcelain imitating early bronzes), nos. 84 and 85 (white jade), no. 86 (champlevé enamel), no. 87 (molded celadon porcelain), and no. 88 (enamel on metal).

The ritual of incense burning served not only a spiritual element, but it facilitated other more practical purposes, such as the fumigation of clothes. Each of these vessels was used for a specific purpose: the box and cover for storage of incense, either in strip, coil or pellet form, whilst the tool vase accommodated implements such as chopsticks and a spatula to rake or smooth the bed of ashes placed in the censer.

Compare, also, with two jade garnitures sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 October 2000, lot 657 (celadon jade) and lot 658 (white jade).

编制图录及详情
拍品前备注
PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

參考：紐約大都會博物館
清 玉香炉
Incense Burner on Stand
China

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 219

Object Details
Period:Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong period (1736–95)
Culture:China
Medium:Nephrite
Dimensions:H. 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm); W. 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm)
Classification:Jade
Credit Line:Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921
Accession Number:21.175.45a–c
Provenance
Edmund Cogswell Converse , Greenwich CT (until d. 1921) bequeathed to MMA
Timeline of Art History
Timelines
Central and North Asia, 1600-1800 A.D.
China, 1600-1800 A.D.

參考：紐約大都會博物館
清 玉香炉
Covered Incense Box
China
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 219

Object Details
Period:Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong period (1736–95)
Culture:China
Medium:Nephrite
Dimensions:H. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); W. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm); D. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm)
Classification:Jade
Credit Line:Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921
Accession Number:21.175.47a–c
Provenance
Edmund Cogswell Converse , Greenwich CT (until d. 1921) bequeathed to MMA
Timeline of Art History
Timelines
Central and North Asia, 1600-1800 A.D.
China, 1600-1800 A.D.

參考：紐約大都會博物館
清 玉瓶
Vase on Stand
China

Object Details
Period:Qing dynasty (1644–1911), Qianlong period (1736–95)
Culture:China
Medium:Nephrite
Dimensions:H. 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm); W. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm)
Classification:Jade
Credit Line:Bequest of Edmund C. Converse, 1921
Accession Number:21.175.46a, b
Provenance
Edmund Cogswell Converse , Greenwich CT (until d. 1921) bequeathed to MMA
Timeline of Art History
Timelines
Central and North Asia, 1600-1800 A.D.
China, 1600-1800 A.D.

参考：LOT 1024 A RARE THREE-PIECE GREEN JADE INCENSE GARNITURE
18TH CENTURY
Price realised USD 52,500
Estimate USD 40,000 – USD 60,000

A RARE THREE-PIECE GREEN JADE INCENSE GARNITURE
18TH CENTURY
The garniture is comprised of a covered censer, a tool vase and an incense box and cover, all with lobed corners. The censer is carved with a band of intertwined archaistic serpents above a band of shou characters flanked by archaistic motifs, and has a pair of animal-mask and loose ring handles on the narrow sides. The cover is carved in high relief at each corner with a coiled chilong and is surmounted by a coiled, openwork dragon finial. The tool vase is carved in low relief with intertwined archaistic dragons, and the slightly domed cover of the box is carved with a formal floral motif within a border of conjoined C-scrolls. The semi-translucent stone is of mottled green color and rich tone.
The censer 5 ¾ in. (14.7 cm.) wide, hongmu stands

Provenance
George H. Taber (1859-1940) Collection, and thence by descen

Lot Essay
George Hathaway Taber Jr. (1859-1940) was a prolific collector of Chinese ceramics and jades with a discerning eye. He was the son of Capt. George H. Taber (1808-1901), who rose from a humble background to become a prominent member of the community and held a number of important official positions including serving as President of Fairhaven Bank. The younger Taber made his mark as an oil executive and ultimately as a board member with the Gulf Oil Company. A self-taught engineer, he was instrumental in developing important advances in the oil-refining technique. Believed to have been influenced by a relative who had brought back tales and beautiful objects from his travels in China, George Hathaway Taber, Jr. built up an extraordinary collection, which was loaned or gifted to a number of museums, including the Philbrook Museum, to form the core of the Chinese collection. Upon his death in 1940, the collection was split up between his descendants, and part of it was sold at the Park Bernet Galleries, New York, 7-8 March 1946.

Compare with incense garnitures produced in a variety of materials in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Special Exhibition of Incense Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, 1994, and illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 82 and 89 (porcelain imitating early bronzes), nos. 84 and 85 (white jade), no. 86 (champlevé enamel), no. 87 (molded celadon porcelain), and no. 88 (enamel on metal).

The ritual of incense burning served not only a spiritual element, but it facilitated other more practical purposes, such as the fumigation of clothes. Each of these vessels was used for a specific purpose: the box and cover for storage of incense, either in strip, coil or pellet form, whilst the tool vase accommodated implements such as chopsticks and a spatula to rake or smooth the bed of ashes placed in the censer.

Compare, also, with two jade garnitures sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 October 2000, lot 657 (celadon jade) and lot 658 (white jade).

Other information
Special Notice

Prospective purchasers are advised that several countries prohibit the importation of property containing materials from endangered species, including but not limited to coral, ivory and tortoiseshell. Accordingly, prospective purchasers should familiarize themselves with relevant customs regulations prior to bidding if they intend to import this lot into another country.

Pre-Lot Text

PROPERTY FROM AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

參考： California Asian Art Auction
California Asian Art Auction
Nov. 18, 2012
Lot # 34 A CHINESE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE INCENSE GARNITURE
大清乾隆”款 局部鎏金銅螭龍紋爐瓶盒一套（3件）

Dimension: H: 4 in (10 cm ), 8 1/8 in (H:20.5 cm ) , 2 in (H: 5 cm )
Estimate From: $2000
Estimate To: $4000
The set includes three pieces; one vase shaped vessel with spoon-like utensil; a censer with two elephant ear handles, a foo dog on top, and intricate animal patterns; and a small covered jar, also with intricate patterns; a similar incense garniture set was auctioned in Hong Kong Christie’s in November, 2005; mark of “QIANLONG”.

参考：
拍賣 2207
重面中國工藝精品 I
香港|2005年11月28日
拍品1454 清乾隆 鎏金铜炉
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
A RARE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE INCENSE GARNITURE
IMPORTANT CHINESE WORKS OF ART (PART I)
Hong Kong|28 November 2005
LOT 1454 A RARE PARCEL-GILT BRONZE INCENSE GARNITURE

Price realised HKD 120,000
Estimate HKD 100,000 – HKD 150,000

Comprising a censer of rectangular form with rounded corners, the mid-section cast with a horizontal line, dividing two pairs of archaistic dragons above and below on one vertical side, similarly repeated on the reverse, the rounded corners decorated with bejewelled tassels above tied pairs of ruyi sprays, the shorter sides flanked by a pair of dragon-head handles, the domed cover cast in openwork with similar archaistic dragons, surmounted by a recumbent lion finial; a matching rectangular box and cover similarly decorated with pairs of confronted chilong on each of the vertical sides, the flattened cover with a stylised taotie-mask; and a conjoined tool vase with a pair of phoenix on the lower body, the tapering neck with a pair of bats below pendant beaded tassels; accompanied by a spatula
The vase 5 1/4 in. (13.3 cm.) high, box (4)

拍品專文
It is unusual to find complete sets of garnitures, including its spatula, as these pieces are easily separated. Other garniture sets produced in other materials such as champleve enamel, Canton enamel and ceramic in imitation of bronze, from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, are illustrated in A Special Exhibition of Incenser Burners and Perfumers Throughout the Dynasties, 1994, nos. 86, 88 and 89 respectively.

編製圖錄及詳情
拍品前備註
THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Ravenel.com
707 A PARCEL-GILT BRONZE PART INCENSE GARNITURE
Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period (1736-1795)

H: 13.5 cm
H: 6 cm

Estimate TWD420,000 – 600,000 HKD113,000 – 162,000 USD14,500 – 20,700 RMB91,000 – 130,000

PROVENANCE:
Property from the Sui Yuan Zhai Collection
Christie’s South Kensington, 14th July 2006, Lot 46
Christie’s South Kensington, 12th May 2015, Lot 264

Catalogue Note:
This lot is made of fine bronze partially gilt, consisting of two pieces with a bottle and a box. The bronze bottle is of slightly flat oval shape with a narrow neck, surface carved with images of phoenixes and bats. The box is of rectangular form, surface carved in relief with stylized chilong. Both of the pieces are inscribed on the bottom with the six-character mark Daqing Qianlong Nianzhi.

参考：佳士得
香港-2016年春季拍卖会2016-06-01
中国宫廷御制艺术精品
重要中国瓷器及工艺精品
Lot 3406 清乾隆 局部鎏金铜拐子龙纹香炉

拍品信息
尺寸 宽7.9cm
估价 HKD 　150,000-250,000
成交价
六字篆书铸款