A FINE WHITE JADE DEEP BOWL
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A FINE WHITE JADE DEEP BOWL

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A FINE WHITE JADE DEEP BOWL
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

Of plain straight sides rounding to a flat base, supported on five low bracket feet, the interior carved in high relief with a spray of lingzhi fungus combined with a cluster of berries, wannianqing, the translucent stone of even white tone
7 3/4 in. (19.6 cm.) diam., stand, box
Literature
Sotheby's Hong Kong Twenty Years, 1993, p. 289, no. 502.

Lot Essay

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 30 November 1980, lot 526.

The combined imagery of the lingzhi and wannianqing, a sturdy evergreen with clusters of red berries, provides the auspicious rebus wannian ruyi, 'May your wishes come true for the next ten thousand years'.

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