A WHITE JADE FLUTED BOWL AND COVER QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

of deep conical form supported on a ring of eight ruyi, delicately carved around the exterior with narrow fluted petals resembling a chrysanthemum flower, springing from a row of petal lappets encircling the base toward a thin lipped border at the rim, the domed cover similarly carved with radiant fluted petals below a raised collar of low relief ruyi heads encircling stepped concentric ribs, all culminating in a pierced wreath of interlinked ruyi forming a bulging knop, the smoothly polished stone of warm milky colour mottled with a fine snowy white mist and faint occasional russet veining

A private American collection, Florida.
Christie's New York, 22nd March 2007, lot 131.

The bowl is in overall very good condition. There is a very tiny nick to the cover rim.
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Jade vessels fashioned in the form of chrysanthemum flowers appeared during the Qianlong period, deriving from Song dynasty lacquer prototypes that were finely reproduced in porcelain under the Yongzheng emperor in a range of colours. With its newfound access to exceptional quality jade boulders in the Qianlong period, the craftsmen reinterpreted the elegant form in the treasured and rare medium. A related bowl and cover, but with a solid knop described as carved with a shou character framed by lingzhifungus, is illustrated in Stanley C. Nott, Chinese Jades in the Stanley Charles Nott Collection, London, 1942, pl. LXV, no. 55.

Compare a jade covered bowl similarly carved in the form of chrysanthemums, but with an everted rim, sold in these rooms, 21^st May 1987, lot 659; and a chrysanthemum-form pair of boxes and covers, from the Buchanan-Jardine collection, sold at Christie’s London, 15^th May 2012, lot 127.