A Mughal style pale celadon jade ‘chrysanthemum’ dish (Qing dynasty, Qianlong period)
£ 90,000.00
Period: Qianlong period (1736-1795) Dimensions: 15cm diam. Provenance: A private Asian collection Exhibited: Littleton & Hennessy Asian Art – Eleven Exemplary Eighteenth Century Chinese Jades (TEFAF 2009)
The shallow dish extremely thinly carved, its interior decorated with a central medaillon of three layers of radiating chrysanthemum petals, corresponding to layers of overlapping peony petals o the base forming the foot. The exterior with a band of stylised lotus blooms, further petals folding around the rim into the inner mouth rim. The very translucent, softly polished stone of a pale greenish white tone suffused throughout with fine crystalline inclusions.
Compare an pair of bowls almost identical in material, style and workmanship in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated in ‘The Baur Collection: Chinese Jades and other Hardstones’, Pierre-F Schneeberger, Geneva (1976), B38-39.
A Mughal style pale celadon jade ‘chrysanthemum’ dish (Qing dynasty, Qianlong period)
£ 90,000.00
Period: Qianlong period (1736-1795)
Dimensions: 15cm diam.
Provenance: A private Asian collection
Exhibited: Littleton & Hennessy Asian Art – Eleven Exemplary Eighteenth Century Chinese Jades (TEFAF 2009)
描述
The shallow dish extremely thinly carved, its interior decorated with a central medaillon of three layers of radiating chrysanthemum petals, corresponding to layers of overlapping peony petals o the base forming the foot. The exterior with a band of stylised lotus blooms, further petals folding around the rim into the inner mouth rim. The very translucent, softly polished stone of a pale greenish white tone suffused throughout with fine crystalline inclusions.
Compare an pair of bowls almost identical in material, style and workmanship in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated in ‘The Baur Collection: Chinese Jades and other Hardstones’, Pierre-F Schneeberger, Geneva (1976), B38-39.
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