The present lot compares well with another Mughal-style vase sold in these Rooms, 300 Years of Jade, 30 October 2000, lot 673 and is most probably from the same workshop.

The floral elements on this vase recall the elaborate and complex designs found on Mughal jades which entered China in considerable numbers during the Qianlong reign as tributes and items of trade. Mughal jades were greatly admired by the emperor for their delicacy and extreme thinness, and subsequently, the Chinese jade lapidaries at the imperial workshops were influenced by this style. From as early as 1764, jade carvers were ordered specifically by Qianlong to make exact copies of these foreign jades, or to produce Chinese objects in Mughal style, as in the case of the present vase which encompasses both Mughal and Chinese design elements.