16TH-17TH CENTURY

Details

A FINELY CARVED MUGHAL WHITE JADE JAR
16TH-17TH 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 is of an even highly translucent white tone.
4 7/8 in. (12.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Luminous Colours: Treasures from the Shorenstein Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2961

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Lot Essay

Compare the foliate handles and floral base with a Mughal jade bowl 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 to the Qianlong court.

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