A RARE LARGE MUGHAL GRAYISH-GREEN JADE LADLE

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDWARD AND LOUISE B. SONNENSCHEIN

細節

A RARE LARGE MUGHAL GRAYISH-GREEN JADE LADLE
18TH CENTURY

Well carved with a long, rope-twist handle bordered at either end by bands of overlapping leaf tips, separated at one end from the bud terminal by a ribbed band, with another rib and a broader band of overlapping leaf tips at the other end from which the calyx of the large petal-carved bowl issues, the well-polished, semi-translucent stone of gray-green color with buff and russet inclusions, ground rim chip--18½in. (47cm.) long

來源

Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection, no. 1194
Art Institute of Chicago loan, no. 27.50

拍品專文

Compare three other Mughal or Hindustan jade ladles included in the Special Exhibition of Hindustan Jade in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 1983, Catalogue, pls. 41, 42 and 43. The color of the jade of the ladle illustrated in pl. 41 is very similar to the present example, and it also has a bud terminal. The color of the jade of the ladles illustrated in pls. 42 and 43 is white in tone, but they both have rope or cord-twist handles and a bud terminal. None is as long as the present example, but no. 43 is the longest at 41cm. and the bowl is also shallow and has a lobed rim