A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE MUGHAL-STYLE JAR

QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A FINELY CARVED WHITE JADE MUGHAL-STYLE JAR
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The extremely thin material of the globular body is embellished with a pair of delicately carved leaf-form handles on the shoulder, under overlapping scalloped leaves in shallow relief around the slightly waisted neck, repeated with a single band of leaves encircling the base, above a splayed foot in the form of an open blossom carved on the base, the stone of an even translucent white tone
4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

Compare the foliate handles and floral base with a Mughal jade bowl from which inspired the Qing court to commission similar carvings to be produced at the Imperial workshops, in the National Palace Museum collection, Taipei, illustrated in Exquiste Beauty - Islamic Jades, Taipei, 2007, p. 62, no. 52. The National Palace Museum bowl was sent to as tribute in 1770.

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