QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A WHITE JADE ARCHAISTIC ZHADOU
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The compressed globular body is divided into eight lobes below a flared bracket-lobed mouth, and is raised on a short foot of conforming section. The exterior of the jar is decorated with a lappet border on the neck and archaistic masks on the body. The semi-translucent stone is of an even white tone with scattered patches of russet.
4 ½ in. (11.3 cm.) wide

Provenance

John Sparks Ltd., London.
The T. B. Kitson Collections: Important Chinese Jade, Cloisonné, Amber and Lacquer and Chinese Ceramics; Sotheby's London, 18 October 1960, lot 137.
The LJZ Collection, United States.

Literature

J. Johnson and Chan Lai Pik, 5000 Years of Chinese Jade, San Antonio, 2011, p. 110, no. 74.
A. Carter, The LJZ Collection of Chinese Jades, London, 2022, pp. 80-81, no. 34.

Exhibited

San Antonio, San Antonio Museum of Art, 5000 Years of Chinese Jade, 1 October 2011-19 February 2012.

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Lot Essay

The shape of this zhadou is quite unusual. Not only are the sides carved as four bracket-lobed petals, but it is of oval section rather than the more usual circular section of most zhadou. The same bracket-lobed sides can be seen on a vase of less compressed zhadou form, which is flanked by two handles suspending rings, illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 6, Qing, Hebei, 1991, p. 102, pl. 154. See, also, p. 85, pl. 131, the zhadou with a similarly compressed, but not bracket-lobed, body carved with archaistic decoration. Both of these vessels are in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing.

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