A VERY RARE WHITE JADE BOWL

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A VERY RARE WHITE JADE BOWL
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Intricately carved in openwork with a bird perched on luxuriant branches of begonia emerging from the interior of the irregular-shaped shallow bowl naturalistically formed as a tree trunk, beside a further sprig of prunus, the semi-translucent stone of an even creamy white tone
6 7/8 in. (17.4 cm.) long, stand

Provenance

Christie's New York, 10 December 1987, lot 79

Literature

Robert Kleiner, Chinese Jades from the Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Hong Kong, 1996, no. 94

Exhibited

Christie's New York, 13-26 March 2001
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, August 2003 - December 2004

Lot Essay

The present lot is carved from stone of exceptionally good quality and of a remarkably good colour in the tone of "lychee flesh".

A lotus vase carved in a very similar style was exhibited at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Chinese Jade Throughout the Ages, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, Catalogue no. 408. Compare also a bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo Yuqi Quanji, vol. 6, p. 207, no. 299.

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