Lot 11
  • 11

An imperial white jade bowl Incised mark and period of Qianlong

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
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Description

the deep rounded sides rising from a short, slightly splayed foot to a gently flared rim, incised with a collector's mark jia to the crisp footrim and with the four-character mark to the flat base, the finely polished stone of pale celadon-white tone lightly mottled with fainter white inclusions

Catalogue Note

Compare a similar bowl illustrated in Angus Forsyth and Brian McElney, Jades from China, The Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, England, 1994, cat.no. 340, where it is discussed that bowls of this fine quality could only have been produced during the 18th century when stone of this almost flawless quality was in abundant supply, and could well have been one of the bowls ordered from Suzhou by the imperial court in 1753.