Page 149 - 2019 September 10th Sotheby's Important Chinese Art Jades, Met Museum Irving Collection NYC

70 A FLORIFORM CELADON JADE
DISH
⬳ 曺 SONG - YUAN DYNASTY
军 䌱 the shallow sides shaped into six lobes rising at a slight angle Ը๕
⃫ġġġ 晽 and then expanding to a ß at everted rim with six bracket-form
厙 ‘petals’, the surface unadorned aside from six notches cut into ἃ伭ΐ㕗ġĩIJĺijıĮijıIJĹĪġ⍲崓ỗ䈡ġĩIJĺIJĸĮijıIJķĪɀ㫸
⎋ the reverse of the cavetto to deÞ ne the lobes, the stone a sage- 暚ằ⃟㓞啷炻䶐嘇IJıĶ
䚌 green color dappled with icy inclusions and with a russet vein at
one side

Diameter 8⅛ in., 20.5 cm

PROVENANCE
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016)
Irving, no. 105.
Jade barbed-rim wares in this style are very rare. Examples of
similar barbed-rim dishes in metal include a silver dish that was
excavated in an 8th century tomb in Inner Mongolia, and another
silver dish that was discovered in a Yuan dynasty tomb near
Shanghai, see James C.S. Lin, Chinese Jades from the Neolithic
period to the Twentieth Century, London, 2009, pp. 66-67. A
strikingly similar mottled gray jade barbed-rim bowl of this type
in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge has been
published in J. P. Palmer, Jade, London, 1967, pl. 19, and in op.
cit., cat. no. 57.
$ 20,000-30,000

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