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AN IMPERIAL INSCRIBED WHITE Finely carved from a luminous white jade stone, of a Khotan bowl’), but dated to the yiyou year
JADE BOWL the present bowl is notable for the delicately of the Qianlong reign (1766) in the anthology
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF carved border on a key-fret ground. Although of Imperial Qianlong poems, is found on two
QIANLONG incised jade bowls of this flared form are typical bowls, one in the National Palace Museum,
of the Qianlong period, only a small group were Taipei, included in the Museum’s exhibition
well worked with steep sides rising from a splayed further embellished with this elegant decorative Empty Vessels, Replenished Minds. The Culture,
foot to an everted rim, the exterior neatly incised band; for example see two in the Palace Museum, Practice, and Art of Tea, National Palace Museum,
with an imperial poem eulogising Hetian jade Beijing, one carved from white jade and the other Taipei, 2002, cat. no. 165, and the other, from
tea bowls, dated to the first month of the the green, illustrated in Chinese Jades Throughout the collection of Elizabeth Parke Firestone, sold
jiawu year of the Qianlong period (in accordance the Ages, vol. 11, Chicago, 1996, pls 19 and 23 at Christie’s New York, 22nd March 1991, lot 532,
with 1774) and followed by a seal mark reading respectively; another white jade bowl of slightly and twice in these rooms, 26th October 2003, lot
guxiang (‘ancient fragrance’), all between two wider proportion and dated to the gengyin year of 33, and 8th April 2010, lot 1832.
leiwen bands interrupted with taotie masks, the Qianlong (1770), sold twice in these rooms, 25th
translucent white stone with faint icy inclusions April 2004, lot 51 and 8th October 2013, lot 3173; The present piece is closely related in form to
11.9 cm, 4⅝ in. and a green jade bowl, dated to the wuyin year contemporaneous bowls made of other materials
(1758), sold in these rooms, 7th October 2010, with tea-related poems. See one porcelain
HK$ 500,000-700,000 lot 2101. example inscribed in underglaze blue with the
US$ 64,000-89,500 imperial poem sanqing cha (‘three purities tea’),
Similar to the inscriptions found on other bowls included in the Special exhibition of K’ang-hsi,
清乾隆 of this type, the present imperial poem titled Yung-cheng and Ch’ien-lung Porcelain Ware
御題和闐白玉茶盌 yong Hetian yu chawan (‘In praise of a Khotan tea from the Ch’ing Dynasty in the National Palace
《大清乾隆年製》、《甲午新正月御題》款 bowl’) praised the quality of the stone from which Museum, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986,
「古香」印 it was carved and the enjoyment of drinking tea cat. no. 142. For an example in lacquer, see a
from such a vessel. Another poem of a similar bowl in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
題識： title, for example, yong Hetian yu wan (‘In praise illustrated in Sir Harry M. Garner, Chinese
中椀材贏中爵加，用非盛酒用盛茶。 Lacquer, London, 1979, pl. 93.
調神真是有餘潤，比徳更稱無點瑕。
漢史快心異玉局，明廷襄典類瑯琊。
和闐嵗貢茲成例，天寶龍光羾物華。

Mark Qing Gaozong yuzhi shiwen quanji [Anthology of imperial Qianlong poems and proses],
418 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比 Yuzhi shi si ji [Imperial poems, vol. 4], juan 17, p. 14.

〈詠和闐玉茶椀〉，《清高宗御製詩文全集．御製詩四集》，卷17，頁14