SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY (1127-1368)

Details

A VERY RARE PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE FOLIATE DISH
SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY (1127-1368)
The shallow dish is finely carved with thin sides forming six bracket-lobed sections. The semi-translucent stone is of greenish-white tone with a few small areas of russet.
4 in. (10.2 cm.) diam., cloth box

Provenance

Professor Cheng Te-k'un (1908-2001), The Mu-Fei Collection, Cambridge, England.
Bluett & Sons, London, 31 December 1990.
The LJZ Collection, United States.

Literature

Cheng Te-k'un, Jade Flowers and Floral Patterns in Chinese Decorative Art, Hong Kong, 1969, p. 50, fig. 3(a).
J. Ayers and J. Rawson, "Chinese Jade throughout the Ages," Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, London, vol. 40, 1975, no. 352.
J. C. Y. Watt, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, New York, 1980, p. 158, no. 130.
B. Morgan and Wu Hung, Chinese Jades from the Mu-Fei Collection, London, 1990, no. 62.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 42-43, no. 16.

Exhibited

London, Victoria & Albert Museum, Chinese Jade throughout the Ages, 1 May-22 June 1975.
New York, Asia House Gallery, Chinese Jades from Han to Ch'ing, Fall 1980.
London, Bluett & Sons Ltd., Chinese Jades from the Mu-Fei Collection, 1990.

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Lot Essay

This rare bracket-lobed dish was most likely inspired by contemporaneous lacquer dishes of the same shape such as the black lacquer example dated to the Yuan dynasty illustrated by Giuseppe Eskenazi, A Dealer’s Hand, London, 2012, p. 238, pl. 161 and another example sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 April 2001, lot 627. (Fig. 1) Similar barbed petals can also be seen on the black lacquer dish with eight rather than six petals illustrated by Lee King Tsi and Hu Shih Chang in the exhibition catalogue, Dragon and Phoenix: Chinese Lacquer, The Lee Family Collection, Tokyo, Museum of East Asian Art, Cologne, 1990, p. 70, no. 22, dated to the Yuan dynasty.

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