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A MUGHAL-STYLE GREEN JADE BOWL Mughal jade vessels are renowned for A number of Mughal and Mughal-style jade
18th century their exceptionally thinly carved walls and pieces from the Imperial collections are now in
Finely hollowed as an oval bowl supported on naturalistic motifs. Such finely carved pieces the National Palace Museum, Taipei, of which
a neat foot encircled by a continuous band of from Mughal India, Xinjiang and Mongolia many were included in the Special Exhibition
lappets, mirroring another lappet band around are understood to have been introduced to Exquisite Beauty - Islamic Jades, Taipei, 2007.
the rim flanked by a pair of handles in the form the Imperial Court during the Qianlong reign See for example the open dish form, and
of pendent fruit, the stone of even green tone, period as tribute ware. It appears that the small handles shaped like gently dropping
wood stand. first documented piece arrived in 1758, and fruit, on nos.48 (incised with a Qianlong
18cm (7 1/8in) wide (2). further pieces were presented to the Imperial mark) and 56; see also the similar treatment
Court from 1760 onwards, once Xinjiang was of the fruit handles and soft greyish-green
secured under the Qing administrative control. stone of no.57. Another similar example from
£8,000 - 12,000 the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in
CNY70,000 - 110,000 The Qianlong emperor greatly admired the Compendium of Collections in the Palace
fine quality of the Mughal jade workmanship, Museum: Jade 10: Qing Dynasty, Beijing,
十八世紀 青玉雕痕都斯坦式雙耳盌 and wrote poems praising the Mughal pieces 2011, no.217.
in his collection, describing them as ‘thin as
Provenance: Bonhams London, 15 May paper’. Chinese carvers strove to imitate the
2014, lot 163 Mughal style, and arguably even surpassed
A distinguished English private collection the Mughal carvers in technical fineness of
their carving. The thinness of the walls and
來源：倫敦邦翰斯，2014年5月15日， simplicity of the carving in the Mughal style is
拍品編號163 particularly well suited to revealing the beauty
英國顯貴私人收藏 of the jade stone itself. Indeed the apparent
thinness is often as much the effect of the
delicate translucency of the stone as it is a
reflection of the carver’s masterful skill.

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