18TH CENTURY

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A RARE WHITE JADE BOWL AND COVER
18TH CENTURY
The finely carved deep bowl raised on a foot carved as a band of eight ruyi heads and carved with a narrow band of petal lappets below the band of chrysanthemum petals that encircle the sides, and are repeated on the domed cover below a band of eight further ruyi heads and a series of stepped bands forming the neck of the openwork knop also carved as eight ruyi heads surrounding an inner ring border and hollow center, the finely polished stone of even white color
4 3/8 in. (11.2 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

This finely carved bowl and cover are very similar to a bowl and cover illustrated by Stanley C. Nott, Chinese Jades in the Stanley Charles Nott Collection, 1942, pp. 300-1, pl. LXV, no. 55. All aspects of the two are the same, except for the knop, which on the Nott example is solid and described as being carved on top with a shou character within a "wreath of sacred fungus".

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