Lot Essay
A covered jade bowl of similar form and decoration from the Qing Court collection, is illustrated in Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 59.
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Details
A VERY FINE CARVED WHITE JADE BOWL AND COVER
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Finely carved with two taotie masks surrounded by archaistic scroll work, below the foliate everted rim carved with ruyi heads and flanked by a pair of loop handles modelled as bats amidst clouds, suspending loose rings, all raised on four tab feet, the cover with similar low-relief decoration and a cylindrical finial surmounted by a foliate rim, the stone of an even white tone
5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) across the handles, box
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Finely carved with two taotie masks surrounded by archaistic scroll work, below the foliate everted rim carved with ruyi heads and flanked by a pair of loop handles modelled as bats amidst clouds, suspending loose rings, all raised on four tab feet, the cover with similar low-relief decoration and a cylindrical finial surmounted by a foliate rim, the stone of an even white tone
5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) across the handles, box
Provenance
The Greenfield Collection