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A RARE WHITE AND GREY JADE BOWL
SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG
the translucent stone fashioned with thin rounded sides rising from a gently flared foot to an incurved rim, the softly polished stone
of a milky-white tone with grey and black inclusions simulating marble, the base deeply cut in relief with a four-character Qianlong
yuyong seal mark
清乾隆 灰白玉斂口盌
《乾隆御用》款
10.8 cm, 4¼ in.
HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 102,000-153,000

PROVENANCE 來源
Douglas Wright Ltd, London, 1970s. Douglas Wright Ltd，倫敦，1970年代
Spink & Son Ltd, London. Spink & Son Ltd，倫敦
Roger Keverne Ltd, London. Roger Keverne Ltd，倫敦
Christie’s Hong Kong, 25th April 1996, lot 10. 香港佳士得1996年4曰25日，編號10
Alvin Lo Oriental Art Ltd, New York 春源齋，紐約.
LITERATURE 出版
Robert P. Youngman, The Youngman Collection 羅伯特．楊門，《楊門藏玉：中國玉器．新石器時代至
of Chinese Jades from Neolithic to Qing, Chicago, 清代》，芝加哥，2008年，圖版213
2008, pl. 213.

The current bowl is extremely rare, and only two other similar examples appear to be published, one included in the exhibition
Chinese Jade throughout the ages, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 1975, cat. no. 436, the other illustrated in Sydney
Moss, In Scholar’s Taste, Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London, 1983, pl. 121, where the authors argue that the form of the bowl derives
from Song Junyao bowls, with its slightly inturned rim and strong projecting foot, and that the rare distinct colour combination
of grey and white with deep dark striations was specifically chosen for its yin-yang symbolism.
The yuyong mark, which designated objects for the personal use of the Emperor, is foremost among all marks found on
Imperial wares, followed closely by the yuzhi designation, which applied to objects made by Imperial command. The yuyong
mark was only used on rare occasions for the Emperor’s most admired objects. See another similar translucent mottled green
jade bowl with the Qianlong yuyong mark, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Chinese Jades Throughout the Ages –
Connoisseurship of Chinese Jades, vol. 11, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 23
Compare also a covered green jade bowl in Taipei, illustrated in the Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Hindustan Jade in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1983, pl. 19, and two inlaid bowls, one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Zhongguo
yuqi quanji [Complete collection of Chinese jades], vol. 6, Shijiazhuang, 1993, pl. 63; the other formerly in the Richard Fuller
collection published in James Watt, Chinese Jades from the Collection of the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 1989, cat. no. 101. A
white jade Mughal bowl with Qianlong yuyong mark was sold in these rooms, 8th October 2010, lot 2601.

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