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香港蘇富比2004年4月25日，編號51

The edge of the footring has possibly been slightly polished down on some areas, otherwise the overall condition is very good.
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Finely carved from a luminous white jade stone, the present bowl is notable for the delicately carved borders on a keyfret ground. Although incised jade bowls of this flared form are typical of the Qianlong period, only a small group were further embellished with this elegant decorative band; for example see two in the Palace Museum, Beijing, one carved from white jade and the other green, illustrated in Chinese Jades Throughout the Ages, vol. 11, Chicago, 1996, pls 19 and 23 respectively; and a green jade bowl, dated to the wuyin year of Qianlong (1758), sold in these rooms, 7^th October 2010, lot 2101.

Bowls of this form were commonly inscribed with imperial poems which often praised the quality of the stone from which it was carved and the enjoyment of drinking tea from such a vessel. Another poem of the same title, Yong Hetian yu wan (In praise of a Khotan Bowl), but dated to the yiyou year of the Qianlong reign (1766) in the anthology of Imperial Qianlong poems, is found on two smaller similarly shaped bowls, one in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Museum’s exhibition Empty Vessels, Replenished Minds. The Culture, Practice, and Art of Tea, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2002, cat. no. 165, and the other, from the collection of Elizabeth Parke Firestone, sold at Christie’s New York, 22^nd March 1991, lot 532, and twice in these rooms, 26^th October 2003, lot 33, and 8^th April 2010, lot 1832. Further bowls of this type include a spinach green version dated to the bingyen year of Qianlong’s reign (1746), sold in our New York rooms, 26^th February, 1982, lot 471, and again in these rooms, 7^th October 2010, lot 2107; and another sold several times at auction, most recently at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30^th November 2011, lot 2964.