18TH/19TH CENTURY

細節

A RARE MUGHAL-STYLE PALE GREENISH-WHITE JADE FLORIFORM BOX AND COVER
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Of unusual lobed outline, the slightly domed cover carved in high relief with a central flower head set in the middle of six tri-lobed petals outlined in leaves, this latter motif repeated on the base of the box to form the shallow foot, the interior divided into six compartments of conforming outline, with engraved silver hinges, the well-polished, pale greenish-white stone with some brown inclusions
4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) across, box

拍品專文

This unusual compartmentalized box and cover is related to a similarly configured box illustrated in Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Hindustan Jade in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1983, pp. 240-1, pl. 59. It has five petals or leaves radiating outwards from the sides and tip of a sixth tear-drop-shaped compartment. A shallow dish with four tri-lobed petals, similar to those of the present box is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 42 - Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995, p. 273, no. 225. See, also, the five-petaled dish of related type with similar serrated slender leaves and small similar flower head incorporated into the design, illustrated by Joseph M. Dye III, The Arts of India, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2001, p. 413, no. 187. Dated as 18th century, the author is undecided whether it is North Indian or Chinese.