QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A SPINACH-JADE MALLOW-FORM WASHER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The washer is exquisitely and thinly carved as an open six-petalled mallow blossom, with each petal meeting the next in a rib in the well, rising from the calyx on the centre of the base surrounded by another band of petals with their upturned edges forming the foot. The stone is of a semi-translucent tone with darker green and lighter green mottling.
6 in. (15 cm.) diam., wood stand

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Lot Essay

Compare to a spinach-jade bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing which shares the similar translucency and mottling effect as the current example, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum V Jade (10) V Qing, Beijing, 2011, p. 210, no. 161 (fig. 1).

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