AN UNUSUAL MOTTLED GRAYISH-GREEN JADE LOBED DISH

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDWARD AND LOUISE B. SONNENSCHEIN

Details

AN UNUSUAL MOTTLED GRAYISH-GREEN JADE LOBED DISH
YUAN/EARLY MING DYNASTY

Carved in the form of an eight-petaled flower, with shallow, rounded and lobed sides rising from the flat base to an everted rim with raised outer edge, the semi-translucent stone of gray-green color with opaque buff and brown mottling and some russet veins--12in. (30.4cm.) across

Provenance

Edward and Louise B. Sonnenschein Collection, no. 1128
Art Institute of Chicago loan, no. 19.50

Lot Essay

The shape of this dish is most likely based on a metal prototype, such as the silver dish dated to the Yuan Dynasty in the Nelson-Atkins Gallery, illustrated by Lee and Ho in Chinese Art Under the Mongols: The Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368), Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968, pl. 33b