QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The motifs including the unusual lotus shaped finial suggests that this bowl may have been used in Buddhist rituals. A comparable white jade bowl with a double-vajra knop finial and the Buddhist emblems contained within lotus petal adorning the sides and cover of the bowl as with the present example, was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, Important Chinese Jades from the Personal Collection of Alan and Simone Hartman, Part II, 27 November 2007, lot 1440 and is included inthe present sale, lot 3026. A jade censer in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, with a similar lotus pod finial below small loose ring handles is illustrated in Jadeware (III), The Complete Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, p. 241, no. 197.