Lot Essay
Compare the similar bowl of slightly smaller size (27.5cm.) illustrated by Michel Beurdeley, The Chinese Collector through the Centuries, 1966, no. 64, where it is dated Kangxi
THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
A LARGE SPINACH-GREEN JADE BOWL
Details
A LARGE SPINACH-GREEN JADE BOWL
18TH CENTURY
Of compressed oval section, boldly carved in high relief on the exterior with an allover pattern of dragons contesting and chasing flaming pearls, borne on a dense ground of layered lingzhi-form clouds, and emerging from rocks enveloped by spume-flecked waves at the base, the carving continuing onto the base as a spiral of incised waves, the incurved rim plain, the opaque stone of mottled dark-green and blackish-gray tones--12in. (30.5cm.) across
18TH CENTURY
Of compressed oval section, boldly carved in high relief on the exterior with an allover pattern of dragons contesting and chasing flaming pearls, borne on a dense ground of layered lingzhi-form clouds, and emerging from rocks enveloped by spume-flecked waves at the base, the carving continuing onto the base as a spiral of incised waves, the incurved rim plain, the opaque stone of mottled dark-green and blackish-gray tones--12in. (30.5cm.) across