VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE LOTUS-FORM BOWL AND COVER AND A GREEN JADE LOTUS-POD STAND

QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE LOTUS-FORM BOWL AND COVER AND A GREEN JADE LOTUS-POD STAND
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
The sides of the semi-translucent bowl carved on the exterior as eight lotus petals, each enclosing the figure of the seated Buddha, raised on a spreading foot carved with a band of smaller petals, the interior of the bowl plain, the domed cover carved with further petals enclosing the bajixiang below the umbrella-form knop, the green jade stand carved as a lotus pod atop waisted lotus petal sides
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A white jade bowl and cover of this form carved with similar decoration, but with a lotus pod rather than umbrella-form knop, in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo yuqi quanji, vol. 6, Hong Kong, 1994, no. 380, p. 248.

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