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Lot Essay
These bowls follow the classic shape of their porcelain counterparts, which was an ideal form to complement the purity of the stone.
Compare with other examples of white jade bowls, similarly undecorated to show off the quality of the stone: an 18th-century pair with covers, exhibited by S. Bernstein & Co. Oriental Art, Chinese Jade From Distant Centuries, San Francisco, 1992, Catalogue no. 39; and another pair without covers, sold in these Rooms, 300 Years of Jade, 30 October 2000, lot 651, where the shape is compared with that of an Imperial yellow porcelain bowl from the Qianlong period; compare also a pair of flawless white jade bowls and covers with Jiaqing marks were sold in these Rooms, Important Jades from the Personal Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, 28 Novmber 2006, lot 1393.
Compare with other examples of white jade bowls, similarly undecorated to show off the quality of the stone: an 18th-century pair with covers, exhibited by S. Bernstein & Co. Oriental Art, Chinese Jade From Distant Centuries, San Francisco, 1992, Catalogue no. 39; and another pair without covers, sold in these Rooms, 300 Years of Jade, 30 October 2000, lot 651, where the shape is compared with that of an Imperial yellow porcelain bowl from the Qianlong period; compare also a pair of flawless white jade bowls and covers with Jiaqing marks were sold in these Rooms, Important Jades from the Personal Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, 28 Novmber 2006, lot 1393.