17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A RARE GREYISH-GREEN AND DARK GREY JADE ALMS BOWL
17TH/18TH CENTURY
Of patra form, well carved with thick walls flaring from the flat foot ring to the high rounded shoulder, the four dark grey areas of the stone spaced vertically around the sides, Qianlong four-character seal mark inscribed on the base
5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) across

Lot Essay

The shape of this jade vessel is based on the alms bowl (patra) form. It is also very similar to the shape of a bronze censer illustrated in Jin yu qing yan: Yang Ping Zhen Xian Sheng Zhen Cang Ming Qing Tong Lu (Gold Jade Green Smoke: Mr. Yang Ping Zhen's Collection of Ming and Qing Bronze Censers), National Museum of History, 1996, p. 213, no. 137 and p. 212, no. 136, which is cast with a Qianlong mark. A dark green jade alms bowl inscribed with sutras, of the Qianlong period, in the Qing Court Collection is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 42 - Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 145, no. 117. See, also, the jade bowl of this shape carved with a dragon chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds and dated to the 17th century included in the exhibition, Chinese Jade, Spink, London, June, 1998, p. 34, no. 52.

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