18TH CENTURY

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A Mughal Style White Jade Lobed Bowl
18th century
The thin, oval body divided into four lobes and well carved in low relief with a band of leaves above the low, spreading foot, carved on the underside with an outer border of petals with under-turned tips enclosing a chyrsanthemum blossom, the pair of handles carved as delicate arched leaves enclosing a nodding bud, the softly polished, translucent stone of white tone
67/8in. (17.5cm.) long

Provenance

Spink & Son, London.

Lot Essay

The style of carving and decoration of this finely carved bowl are clearly inspired by that of 17th century Mughal and 18th century Hindustan jade bowls, such as the imperially inscribed Hindustan white jade bowl of circular form in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the exhibition, Great National Treasures of China, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, 1994, no. 69.

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