QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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AN EXQUISITE WHITE JADE BOWL AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Finely carved around the exterior of the bowl with lotus panels enclosing auspicious Buddhist emblems, the endless knot, carp, vase, lotus and musical stones, similarly decorated on the domed cover with the umbrella, canopy, conch shell, Wheel of Law and peony, surmounted by a ring finial carved with five elephant heads suspending loose rings and fitted with a detachable knop carved as an open lotus flower enclosing a pod, the semi-translucent stone of a flawless even white tone
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, The Imperial Sale, 30 April 2000, lot 526

Literature

Christie's 20 Years in Hong Kong, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Highlights, Hong Kong, 2006, p.362

Exhibited

The Exquisite Chinese Artifacts Collection of Chingwan Society, National History Museum, Taipei, 1995, and illustrated in the Catalogue, pl. 171

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Lot Essay

The motifs including the unusual lotus shaped finial suggests that this bowl may have been used in Buddhist rituals. A comparable white jade bowl with a double-vajra knop finial and the Buddhist emblems contained within lotus petal adorning the sides and cover of the bowl as with the present example, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, Important Chinese Jades from the Personal Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Part II, 27 November 2007, lot 1440 and is included inthe present sale, lot 3026. A jade censer in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, with a similar lotus pod finial below small loose ring handles is illustrated in Jadeware (III), The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 241, no. 197.

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