QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND DATED YIWEI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1775 AND OF THE PERIOD

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AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED PALE CELADON JADE TEA BOWL
QIANLONG INCISED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND DATED YIWEI YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1775 AND OF THE PERIOD
The shallow bowl with a flared rim is elegantly incised to the exterior with the imperial poem Yong yu wan, ‘Ode to the Jade Bowl’, signed Qianlong yuzhi dated to spring of yiwei year, and with a seal reading ‘de chong fu’. The stone is of a pale tone with natural white veins.
4 ¼ in. (11 cm.) diam., Japanese cloth cushion, bag, and double wood box

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For a slightly larger bowl (14.1 cm. diam.) in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, inscribed with the same cyclical year and carved with the same poem, see Zhongguo yuqi chuanji, vol. 6, p. 270, no. 53. Further imperially inscribed jade bowls of a similar shallow form are also published in the same volume, pp. 269-270, nos. 47-52 and 54-56.

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