QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

Details

AN EMBELLISHED WHITE AND SPINACH-GREEN JADE STEM BOWL AND COVER
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The bowl and cover are carved and inset with white jade embellishments to depict butterflies, peonies and melons growing from leafy vines, all raised on an elaborately-worked tall foot decorated to the central section with a band of four archaistic scroll-form loops with loose rings, above bands of stylised lappets inset with white flower heads and a band of raised floral blooms to the flared foot.
10 in. (25.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Collection S. Bulgari, Rome (according to label)
Acquired in London in the 1960s & 70s

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